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| PFC Lloyd Price served in the 80th Infantry Division in France. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84270491/lloyd-george-price https://www.militaryimages.net/media/soldiers-of-the-us-80th-infantry-division.86804/ |
Lloyd was born on July 22, 1920 in Paducah, Kentucky. His father, Paul Minor Price, was also born in Kentucky, and his mother, Lillian Woodford Price, was from Indiana. His father is shown in the 1940 census as a laborer in marine services. Paducah is an Ohio River town, so the father likely worked for a barge operation. A younger brother, Paul M. Price, Jr., also served in the Army during the war. He survived the war and passed away in 1996.
He attended Reidland High School in Paducah. PFC Price’s enlistment record indicates he had two years of high school and was employed in the architectural field. He was a tall, slender man, standing six-feet-four and weighing 176 pounds when inducted at Louisville, Kentucky on July 17, 1942.
PFC Price was sent overseas in July 1944. The 80th ID was sent to Normandy two months after D-Day. As a fresh unit it played a key role in General Patton's Third Army breakout during Operation Cobra. After taking Jouy Sous Les Cotes on September 3, the 80th ID was tasked with taking the high ground southeast of Toul. It took 12 days to accomplish this. PFC Price was killed in action on September 14. On this day the 319th IR was part of a task force that advanced on the high ground west of Nancy.
His remains were returned to the United States for burial in 1948. He is interred at the Oak Grove Cemetery in Paducah.
Thank you, PFC Lloyd George Price, for your sacrifice. Let's Earn It for Lloyd.
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23 years old when he died. Didn't quite make it to 24.
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