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| Cpl. Jasper Nicely served in the 4th Infantry Division. He was killed shortly after D-Day. https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=107025703 |
Happy Veterans Day to all our vets. WW2 Fallen 100 remembers your friends who didn't come home.
James Jasper Nicely never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.
He was born on November 11, 1917 in Virginia. His parents were also both born in Virginia. His father worked as a farmer and later as a state highway foreman. James had one older sister, three older brothers and one younger brother. By 1940 James had completed six years of schooling and still lived at home.
He enlisted in the army on May 28, 1941, leaving behind a railroad job. He became a TEC 5 in the 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. The men of the 4th ID landed on Utah Beach on D-Day. Resistance was much less than at Omaha Beach and the division suffered less than 200 casualties. As the division moved inland to secure the Cotentin Peninsula, losses began to mount.
On June 12, 1944, the 12th Infantry Regiment was assigned to capture two stone quarries near les Fieffes-Dancel. The Americans took casualties and Cpl. Nicely was one of those killed that day.
His grave is at Sharon Baptist Church Cemetery in Virginia. The Nicely Memorial Bridge in Virginia is named for him and two other Nicely relatives -- one who died in World War I and one who died in the Vietnam War.
On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!
I created this video to explain why I started this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY.
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My uncle Paul was in the same unit and also landed on Utah on D-Day. He was wounded in Montebourg, but later fought in the Hurtgen Forest and the Bulge.
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