Walter E Broscious

Cpl Walter Broscious was killed in action on 06 June 1944, serving with Company M, 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment. On the morning of June 6, 1944, M Company's six landing craft came ashore on Omaha Beach roughly on schedule but off their intended mark, touching down on the left of the battalion's assigned sector along a stretch of shoreline where no earlier waves had landed and where the beach obstacles remained untouched. The right-flank boat took a direct 88mm hit, and the left-flank craft, already damaged by a mine, suffered further losses to machine-gun fire as the men fought their way across the sand toward a gully that offered some cover. There the company set up its mortars and machine guns and worked to silence a pillbox and snipers pinning down the beach, before advancing inland toward St. Laurent-sur-Mer in six separate small groups, most of which reached the village by mid-afternoon despite continued losses from mines, machine guns, and artillery fire along the way. By the end of the day the company had lost 25 men, with 115 still fit for duty the following morning. Cpl Broscious was killed in action that day; the report does not specify the individual circumstances.