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Personal info

Full name
NAULT, Lionel Joseph
Date of birth
13 December 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Iron Mauntain, Dickinson County, Michigan
Hometown
Iron Mountain, Dickinson County, Michigan

Military service

Service number
36951851
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
30th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 March 1945
Place of death
In the vIicinity of Zweibrücken, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
F 11 8

Immediate family

Members
Cyrille Nault (father)
Marianne (Poisson) Nault (mother)
Edda Nault (sister)
Rita M. Nault (sister)
Lussen J. Nault (sister)
Wilbert J. Nault (brother)
Thelma Nault (sister)
Herman Nault (brother)
Verna M. Nault (sister)
Theresa (Carollo) Nault (wife)

More information

Sgt Lionel J. Nault graduated from Iron Mountain High School and was a musician in a WPA band.

He was wounded in action in January 1945 by artillery shell fragments in his face.

Sgt Nault was awarded the Bronze Star Medal posthumously for his actions on 28 January 1945 in France. The citation cited: With enemy machine gun & rifle fire from a road-block installation retarding their company's advance, Sgt. Nault & another soldier ran 50 yards through hostile fire to a point 20 yards from the enemy installation. There the 2 men with Bazooka fire & rifle grenades knocked out a German 75mm gun & forced the crew & other personnel on the road-block to flee. One German was killed trying to escape.

Sgt Nault was killed by artillery shell fragments in the thorax and arm.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / US WW2 Hospital Admission Cards, History 3rd Infantry Division WWII
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