Edwin J Nenadal

S/Sgt Edwin Nenadal was killed in action on 06 June 1944, serving with H&S Co, 336th Engineer Combat Battalion. On the morning of 6 June 1944, the 336th Engineer Combat Battalion came ashore in Normandy well off its intended landing point, roughly 3,000 yards west of the assigned beach area, under heavy enemy fire that scattered and damaged several landing craft. Major Robert F. Hunter, serving as Assistant Battalion Commander, gathered the Headquarters Detachment, two companies, a platoon, and the Medical Detachment amid the chaos and led them along the shoreline back to the battalion's proper sector near Fox Green and Fox Red, where the unit was attached in support of the 18th Infantry Regiment. When the planned beach exit proved impossible to open, the battalion cleared an alternate route through a minefield and built a road, completing the work within an hour of the scheduled time and allowing twenty tanks to push inland toward the front. For this leadership under fire, Major Hunter was recommended for the Silver Star by the Brigade Commander. S/Sgt Nenadal was killed in action that day; the report does not specify the individual circumstances.