Murray C Freedman

2d Lt Murray Freedman was killed in action on 25 June 1944, serving with Battery C, 111th Field Artillery Battalion. On 25 June 1944, the 111th Field Artillery Battalion was operating in the vicinity of St Clair-sur-l'Elle, in the area of Hill 120, though no specific action for this exact date survives in the unit's records. More broadly, over the period from 14 to 30 June the battalion fired some 432 fire missions and expended 5,633 rounds of ammunition in support of operations in this sector, working under conditions where observation of targets was consistently difficult. It was within this stretch of sustained artillery support that this day would have fallen. 2d Lt Freedman was killed in action that day; the report does not specify the individual circumstances.