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| Captain Frank Reid earned the Silver Star as a company commander for the 4th Infantry Division. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30426434/frank-burrus-reid/photo https://www.instagram.com/p/tc_ca6J5YP/ |
He was born on June 25, 1920 in Fulton, Kentucky. His parents Dewitt and Minnie were born in Kentucky and Tennessee, respectively. His father worked as a grocery merchant and later as a steamboat pilot. Frank had a younger brother and younger sister. By 1940 Frank was still living at home and had completed two years of college.
He enlisted in the army in October 1941 and decided to enroll in officer candidate school. He reached the rank of captain and commanding officer of Company C, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division.
Frank was a lieutenant when the 4th ID landed on Utah Beach on D-Day and was promoted to captain in July, most likely to take the position of a captain killed or wounded during the fighting in Normandy. According to a Louisville paper, Captain Reid was nominated for the Distinguished Service Cross for his action in destroying three German tanks in August. The award was not granted, but Captain Reid was posthumously awarded the Silver Star. Over the next couple of months, Captain Reid lead Company C out of Normandy and across France to the border with Germany.
On September 14, 1944 the 22nd IR made its initial attack on the Siegfried Line. Captain Reid was wounded during the attack and died that day.
His grave is at Hickman City Cemetery in Hickman, Kentucky.
You can find a detailed website about Frank here. This source was a reference for part of this profile.
This is one of the final 100 stories (70) to be written as part of this project which ends on September 2, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. At that time more than 1,370 men and women will have been profiled. The project will live on in an expanded program to write the stories of all 400,000+ US World War II fallen. Visit www.storiesbehindthestars.org to learn more. We welcome your continued support and interest and encourage you to help write some of these stories.
Last year on this date I profiled Anzio fallen Edward Gazda, 3rd Infantry Division. You can read about Edward here.
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