OUR NEIGHBORS in the SERVICE.
Battle Creek, Ia.—The 980th field artillery battalion of which Cpl. Raymond Hall is a member was the first American heavy artillery to come ashore on Utah beach in the Normandy invasion. In a letter he states the guns of the 980th were the first to fire into Germany. Their sights were trained on a target at Bildchen, he reveals, a suburb of Aachen. The unit is still on combat status, has been in Germany, and was in Belgium at the time the letter was written.
Source: Sioux City Journal, January 30, 1945
Raymond Lyle Hall was born Feb. 9, 1917 to James M. and Lucille A. Hatch Hall. He died June 27, 1983 and is buried in Reading Cemetery, Farnhamville, IA.
Source: ancestry.com
