Hoyt Walker

Pvt Hoyt Walker was killed in action on 09 June 1944, serving with 30th Chemical decontamination Company. On 9 June 1944, three days after landing in Normandy, the 30th Chemical Decontamination Company found that its intended mission—responding to enemy chemical warfare—was not needed, and the unit had instead been put to work supporting Supply Dumps in the Beach Maintenance Area. This was part of a difficult stretch for the company: it was during these early June days that stations tending smoke pots came under German small-arms fire, and Pfc Lloyd W. Walker was killed at one such post on D+3. The company would go on to staff the beachhead's supply operations for weeks afterward, before later taking on very different duties guarding prisoners of war. Pvt Walker was killed in action that day; the report does not specify the individual circumstances.