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Personal info

Full name
SHELLER, Ronald Frances
Date of birth
20 August 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Whittemore, Kossuth County, Iowa
Hometown
Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California

Military service

Service number
39722157
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
3rd Tank Battalion,
10th Armored Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 April 1945
Place of death
Near Crailsheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 9 5

Immediate family

Members
Frank Sheller (father)
Alverna Sheller (mother)
Deloris Sheller (sister)
Loretta Sheller (sister)
Margaret C. Sheller (wife)

More information

Sgt Ronald F. Sheller attended high school for four years and was employed at the Douglas Aircraft Company before he enlisted in Los Angeles, California on 29 December 1943.

He was awarded the Silver Star Medal. The citation reads: On 19 December 1944 in the vicinity of Longvilly, Belgium, he was accompanying a group of tank men and infantry men who were attempting to gain entrance to the town. The town was partially in the hands of the enemy and the group was pinned down by enemy artillery and small arms fire. Pvt Sheller, in an attempt to knock out the enemy gun which was harassing his comrades and preventing their progress, killed an enemy sniper and crawled to a point where he could observe an enemy machine gun emplacement. Advancing under enemy fire, he wiped out the enemy gun single-handed killing two members of the crew and taking the third prisoner.

Sgt Sheller was later killed by artillery shell fragments.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1930 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.10tharmored.com
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