World War II Honoree

Robert Clayton Crouse

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Monticello, Indiana

Honored By

Edith Crouse Lounsberry

Relationship

Daughter

Inducted into the Army on May 24th, 1943 in Indianapolis, Indiana; Assigned to the 775th Field Artillery; Trained at Camp Beale in California; Artillery: 4.5” M1 gun which shot a 55 lb. shell for 12 miles; Landed in Normandy at Utah Beach on July 27th, 1944; assigned to General Patton’s Third Army, 12th corps; Gun positions in France: Longevas, Commercy, Nancy, Roth, Belleau, Pont-a-Mousson, Metz; Other gun positions: Flaxweiler, Luxembourg (Battle of the Bulge), Oppenheim, Germany; By mid-February, 1945, 775th Field Artillery battalion fired its 50,000th round, averaging 360 rounds fired a day; Post war, stationed in Versailles, France and shipped back to the U.S. from Le Havre aboard the Lehigh Victory ship in January 1946.