NORMAN GRAMLEY COOK
b. Dec 29, 1922 d. Nov 9, 1944 Killed in Action Germany
S Sgt 36577596 Army
112th Inf Reg 28th Inf Div
Buried Parkview Memorial Cemetery, Livonia,
Michigan
Parents: Oscar Gordon & Gertrude Violet
(Keeling)
Siblings: Airetta, Oscar Gordon Jr., Helen
Gertrude, Earl Roy, Joan, James, Robert
His parents came
up from Missouri and Arkansas. Oscar
worked in the auto factory and with his wife had 8 children in their Brightmoor
neighborhood. It was a neighborhood of residents of mixed origins all living
the dream of work and a home. Alas today it is a neighborhood of overgrown
lots, garbage piles and boarded up, long abandoned structures. By 1940 they owned their home and Oscar worked for
an airplane manufacturer.
The 112th Inf Reg plowed through France
and Germany participating in the capture of Paris, then went on to the Huertgen
Forest and the bitter fighting that took place. At one point, after the fight
for Kommerscheidt, the regiment was reduced to 300 men just prior to the Battle
of Bluge fought in Dec.
His Headstone Application has the Regiment and Division
corrected on the back side.
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