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Edwin R. Furru
Rank:
Private First Class
Serial Number:
20714853
Unit:
1st Ranger Battalion
Date of Death:
2002-02-20
State:
Minnesota
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Edwin R. Furru was born in 1918, in Minnesota. He served in the 1st Ranger Battalion as a Private First Class during World War II. Furru was one of 50 US Army Rangers who participated with British Commando on the Dieppe raid in 1942. He was captured and while in one of the POW transport vehicles, he was wounded in the knee with shrapnel when a British Spitfire strafed the group thinking it was a German troop convoy. He was a POW until released in June 1945. PFC Furru died on February 20, 2002, in Seattle, Washington.
Source of information: wwiirangers.org