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Paul Button Snyder is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte American Liberators Plaque

Name:

Paul Button Snyder

Rank:

Corporal

Serial Number:

35258397

Unit:

80th Anti-Aircraft Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division

Date of Death:

1944-06-14

State:

Kentucky

Cemetery:

Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Colleville-sur-Mer, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

Plot:

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Purple Heart

Comments:

Paul Button Snyder was born in 1919, in Kentucky. He served in Battery C, 80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, as a Corporal during World War II. Cpl Snyder was Killed in Action on June 14, 1944, during the liberation of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte in France. He is now buried in the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Colleville-sur-Mer, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France. Cpl Snyder was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart in recognition of his bravery and sacrifices.