Sutton Owen Worth

Monuments

Monument to Operation Cowboy Casualties

Operation Cowboy Marker

Name:

Owen Worth Sutton

Rank:

Technician 5th Grade

Serial Number:

34664702

Unit:

42nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Group (2nd Cavalry Regiment)

Date of Death:

1945-05-01

State:

North Carolina

Cemetery:

Westview Cemetery Kinston, Lenoir County, No

Plot:

Section A

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Grave:

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Comments:

T/5 Sutton was one of two casualties during Operation Cowboy in April 1945. The Czech city of Bela nad Radbuzou created a memorial to remember his sacrifice. An extract from the 2nd Cav Association website best sums up Manz’s service: T/5 Owen W. Sutton was from Kinston, N.C. He was born Dec. 8th, 1916, and was undoubtedly called Pops or Old Man or the like by his troop-mates during the fight across Europe, before he died in an Army field hospital in Nurnberg, Germany, on May 1st, 1945, at the ripe old age of 28, from wounds received the previous day in defense of the Hostau horse farm against a German SS counter-attack during Operation Cowboy.