World War II Honoree
Killed in World War II
George Y. Perry
Branch of Service
U.S. Army
Hometown
Mercer, Pennsylvania
Honored By
Orville L. Kline
Rank: Private First Class. Inducted into the United States Army November 19, 1942 at Erie, Pennsylvania. Following recruit and advanced infantry training, he was deployed to the European Theater of Operations. He served as a Rifleman with the Sixty-Second Infantry Battalion, a subordinate unit of the Fourteenth Armored ‘Liberators’ Division, attached to the U.S. Seventh Army. Friday, January 19, 1945 he was mortally wounded, when his division participated in the Battle of Hatten-Rittershoffen, against Germanys’ Twenty-Ninth Tank Panzer Corps. This engagement took place near the villages of Hatten and Rittershoffen, Germany. Personnel from a Grave Registration Company buried him in the Henri-Chapelle Battlefield Cemetery, Ellpen, Belgium. In the post-war era, this Soldiers’ family requested that he be buried with Military Honors at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery Location: Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. This American Patriot was awarded the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster posthumously, for his Heroism and ultimate sacrifice.