Roger H. Caron, age 19, from New Hampshire, Belknap county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Wednesday, January 17, 1945
Death details: On August 13, 1987, the Central Identification Laboratory–Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Private First Class Roger H. Caron, missing from World War II. Private First Class Caron, who entered the U.S. Army from New Hampshire, served with Company D, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division. On January 17, 1945, he was a machine gunner supporting rifle companies attacking German positions near the village of Rothbach in northern France. He was killed in a German counterattack, though the precise circumstances of his loss are unknown, and his body was not immediately recovered. In 1986, a French national located the remains of an American soldier in a foxhole near Reipertswiller, France. U.S. Army Memorial Affairs Activity-Europe personnel recovered these remains and analysts later identified thes remains as those of PFC Caron.
Source: National Archives