Name:
Francis Joseph Connolly
Rank:
Private First Class
Serial Number:
31300634
Unit:
2nd Ranger Battalion
Date of Death:
1944-06-06
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-Sur-Mer, France
Plot:
Tablets of the Missing
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Comments:
Francis Joseph Connolly was born on March 2, 1924, in Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He had one year of high school and a civil occupation as a semiskilled occupation in the manufacture of textiles. He was single without dependents upon enlistment. He enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1943.
Francis served in Company E, 2nd Ranger Battalion, as a Private First Class during World War II. He was Missing in Action on June 6, 1944, during the American assault on Omaha beach in France. He is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing, Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-Sur-Mer, France.