Walter B Strauss

S/Sgt Walter Strauss was killed in action on 06 June 1944, serving with HQ Company, 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment. On 6 June 1944, the 116th Infantry Regiment came ashore near Exit D-1 and pushed inland toward St. Laurent-sur-Mer, working to secure the beach exit before turning to help clear German defenses along the shore, with elements advancing as far as Vierville-sur-Mer. Specific movements of the 3rd Battalion that day are not separately documented, but by nightfall the regiment's battalions had spread into positions along the road west of Vierville-sur-Mer, roughly 100 meters west of St. Laurent-sur-Mer, and just north of St. Laurent-sur-Mer. It was likely as part of this broader regimental effort, rather than through any separately recorded action, that the battalion took part in the fighting and movement of that first day. S/Sgt Strauss was killed in action that day; the report does not specify the individual circumstances.