Name:
Norman Spechler
Rank:
Private
Serial Number:
12026085
Unit:
1st Infantry Division
Date of Death:
1944-06-06
State:
New York
Cemetery:
Normandy American Cemetery, France
Plot:
Tablets of the Missing
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Comments:
Norman Spechler was born in 1922. He entered the military service in New York and served in the U.S. Army during World War II as a Private in the 1st Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action on June 6, 1944 when he was gunned down while exiting a landing craft during D-Day's storming of Normandy, France. He died on June 6, 1944 but was declared Missing in Action and is memorialized on Tablets of the Missing, Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France.