Kenneth J Moore
| Corporal T-5 Kenneth J Moore
Joining the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in 1942, he trained as a medic and jumped into Normandy with the 501st in the early hours of D-Day, 6 June 1944. Together with 101st medic Robert E. Wright he found himself embroiled in the fighting around the hamlet of Angoville-au-Plain behind Utah Beach and the two medics immediately set up the field dressing station in the ancient church. After Angoville was secured he advanced with the 101st into Carentan and through Normandy, jumping on Operation Market Garden in September 1944, before seeing action again at the bitter siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. By the end of hostilities he had received the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. |