Name: Richard W “Dick” Cutler
First Name(s): Richard W “Dick”
Last Name: Cutler
Place of birth: Ohio, Montgomery Cnty, Dayton
Rank: Pfc
ASN: 15101860
Company: I
Unit: 505th PIR 3rdBn 82nd ABN Div
Reported as: KIA
Date of incident: 03-01-1945
Place of incident: Fosse (Trois-Ponts)
note: The plan on 3 January for taking Fosse was for G and H Companies to bypass the town and take up positions on high ground to the southwest from which they could provide supporting fire while I Company attacked into the town from the north.
All was going well until I Company emerged from a wood two hundred yards from Fosse’s outskirts and got pinned down by small arms, machinegun and artillery fire. The commanding officer, Capt McPheeters was killed instantly as well as the only other officer Lt Degenhardt. In total the company suffered 13 casualties. They are remembered on a monument, situated on the north side of the town in a street called Sur le Meez.
Unit history of 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment
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