James J Limber

2nd Lt James Limber was killed in action on 06 June 1944, serving with Battalion HQ, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment. On the morning of June 6, 1944, the 1st Battalion's command group came ashore in four boats from the Princess Maude, one of which foundered nine miles offshore before its men were pulled aboard the others. The remaining boats grounded near the Vierville draw under heavy crossfire, and only about a third of those aboard reached the base of the cliff alive, pinned there by machine guns and snipers. By mid-morning roughly sixty men, including attached Rangers, climbed the cliff to clear a fortified house, a fight that lasted most of the day, while the position endured hours of mistaken shelling from a friendly destroyer before the error was corrected. That evening survivors were gathered along the beach and moved inland to join the rest of the battalion, forming a bivouac of about 250 men beyond Vierville-sur-Mer by nightfall. 2nd Lt Limber was killed in action that day; the report does not specify the individual circumstances.