Jerry Cartell NMI

Pvt Jerry Cartell, NMI was killed in action on 09 June 1944, serving with AT Co, 18th Infantry Regiment. On 9 June 1944, the 18th Infantry Regiment was operating as part of a broader Corps plan that narrowed its assigned sector, with the 1st and 3rd Battalions relieved from their positions near Mandeville and Trevieres by the 9th Combat Team of the 2nd Division. That afternoon, the regiment attacked alongside the 26th Infantry, with the 3rd Battalion on the right and the 1st Battalion on the left, the 2nd Battalion held in reserve, pushing toward the original D+1 objective line along the Drome River, reinforced by additional artillery support from Battery B, 62nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion. The regimental command post displaced forward from Surrain toward a location recorded as "Roseles," though this is almost certainly a transcription variant of Mosles, a village the regiment's 2nd Battalion had already reached two days earlier. Pvt Cartell was killed in action that day; the report does not specify the individual circumstances.