Hugh F Patterson

Pfc Hugh Patterson was killed in action on 06 June 1944, serving with Company D, 1st Battalion, 115th Infantry Regiment. On D-Day, the 1st Battalion of the 115th Infantry came ashore on FOX GREEN Beach at approximately 10:25 in the morning, making faster progress inland than the battalion beside it. By nightfall the battalion had pushed south of St. Laurent-sur-Mer, though the advance was not without cost, as the unit endured sniper and mortar fire through the night. Command records note that the battalion's commanding officer, Lt. Col. Blatt, was wounded by mortar fire that day; the after-action narrative describes the wound as fatal, though the official casualty listing records him as wounded in action and surviving, a discrepancy the records themselves acknowledge. Pfc Patterson was killed in action that day; the report does not specify the individual circumstances.