World War II Honoree

Lewis E. Price

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Rogersville, Tennessee

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Private First Class. He was inducted into the United States Army November 25, 1942 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Served as a Rifleman with the Twenty-Eighth Infantry ‘Keystone’ Division in the European Theater of Operations, assigned to Easy Company, Second Battalion and 109th Infantry Regiment. His division participated in the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest against the German Armed forces (Battle Dates: September 19-December 16, 1944) Rhineland Campaign. Reported missing in action Monday, November 6, 1944 when he failed to return from a reconnaissance patrol. His name is permanently inscribed in the tablets of the missing, memorialized at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands. Later his missing in action status was amended to read killed in action November 7, 1945. After the cessation of hostilities in Europe, a Quartermaster Graves Registration Company, Quartermaster Corps conducted recovery operations, and his remains were not recovered. In November of 1947 a German resident discovered some remains in the Raffelsbrand sector of the Hürtgen Forest, and notified the American Graves Command personnel of the findings. The remains could not be positively identified, and were interred as an unknown at the Margraten Netherlands American Cemetery, Netherlands. Personnel from the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Agency in June of 2017 disinterred an unknown from the Netherlands cemetery. The remains were transferred to the Agency laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska were he was identified. The family of this Soldier received his remains for burial. He was laid to rest with Military Honors, December 14, 2018 at the Highland Cemetery in Rogersville, Tennessee. This American Patriot received the following decorations posthumously: Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. The Bronze Star, awarded for Bravery, Act of Merit and Meritorious Service in Combat. The Purple Heart was awarded, for his ultimate sacrifice in defense of his country.