James L. Evans
James L. Evans
US Army
Private First Class
289 Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division
Date of birth unknown. His father was Squire S. Evans
KIA January 17, 1945
Evans' unit, the 75th Infantry had 18 months of vigorous training at Camp Breckenridge KY and then Fort Leonard Wood, MO and then were shipped to Southern Wales for a month. There they boarded LSTs for the Channel crosssing debarking at Le Harve and Rouen arriving November 1944. By Christmas Day they had made a direct assault on a high hill controlling the approach to Hampteau. Alathough pinned down by aggressive machine gun and mortar fire, this unit took the enemy position, which ended the threat to Hotton and with no time spent on the liine went directly ito combat to stop the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes Forest, Belgium. It was during this action that PFC Evans was killed in action on January 17, 1945. He received the Purple Heart and is buried a Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Henri-Chapelle, Belgium.
US Army
Private First Class
289 Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division
Date of birth unknown. His father was Squire S. Evans
KIA January 17, 1945
Evans' unit, the 75th Infantry had 18 months of vigorous training at Camp Breckenridge KY and then Fort Leonard Wood, MO and then were shipped to Southern Wales for a month. There they boarded LSTs for the Channel crosssing debarking at Le Harve and Rouen arriving November 1944. By Christmas Day they had made a direct assault on a high hill controlling the approach to Hampteau. Alathough pinned down by aggressive machine gun and mortar fire, this unit took the enemy position, which ended the threat to Hotton and with no time spent on the liine went directly ito combat to stop the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes Forest, Belgium. It was during this action that PFC Evans was killed in action on January 17, 1945. He received the Purple Heart and is buried a Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Henri-Chapelle, Belgium.
Soldiers of the 289 Infantry Regiment marching on the snow covered roads in the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes