Name: Ernest A Link
First Name(s): Ernest A
Last Name: Link
Place of birth: Minnesota, Wilkin Cnty, Foxholme
Rank: S/Sgt Tank Commander
ASN: 37032105
Company: A
Unit: 40th Tank Bn 3rd AD
Reported as: KIA
Date of incident: 23-12-1944
Place of incident: Rodt area
note: S/Sgt Ernest A Link was killed together with his 4 crew members Cpl Frank Aldrich, Pvt Quilles V Bissell and Raymond C Hennigan and Tec4 Louie A Johnson.
On March 10, 1945 his remains were distinterred form an isolated grave in front of a house in Rodt, west of Sankt Vith, Belgium.
Read their story in research report “Five A/40 Tank Deaths Reported KIA 23 Dec 1944” by Wesley Johnston, Historian, 7th Armored Division Association
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