BIOGRAPHY:
1st Lieutenant Turner B. Turnbull is buried at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Colleville-sur-Mer/Basse-Normandie, France. Plot: E, Row: 21, Grave: 21.
|
| |
|
|
 |
SILVER STAR
|
|
Rank:
|
1st Lieutenant (Lieutenant)
|
|
Unit:
|
Company D, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division "All-American" , U.S. Army
|
|
Action:
|
For action performed on 6 June 1944 (D-Day), at Neuville-au-Plain/Manche department, Basse-Normandie, France.
|
|
Details:
|
Posthumously awarded.
|
|
|
 |
| |
|
|
|
PURPLE HEART
|
|
Rank:
|
1st Lieutenant (Lieutenant)
|
|
Unit:
|
Company D, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division "All-American" , U.S. Army
|
|
|
 |
| |
| |
| |
Provide alterations or additional information |
| Information source(s): |
- Nordyke, P., Four Stars of Valor - The Combat History of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment in World War II, Zenith Press, St. Paul, USA, 2006
- Murphy, R.M., No Better Place to Die, The Battle for La Fière Bridge, Ste. Mère-Eglise, June 1944, Casemate Publishers, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, USA, 2009
- American Battle Monuments Commission
- ww2-airborne.us
- allamerican82nd.com
|
|
 |
)