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CORPORAL WILLIAM FRED FOEHL
JR. was born on November 15, 1915 to William F. & Florence Foehl. William
Foehl Sr. was appointed to the Camden Fire Department in 1924. At
that time the Foehl family
owned a house at 2731 Sherman
Avenue in the Cramer Hill
section of Camden..
William Foehl Jr.
graduated from Camden High
School in June of 1935, and, according to his military records,
attended college for two years. William
Foehl Jr. had married and worked at the Third National Bank and Trust in
Camden prior to being inducted into the United States Army on June 9,
1942 at Fort Dix. He lived with his wife Mary at 2737 Sherman
Avenue in Camden. Corporal
William Foehl Jr. served as a drill instructor at Camp Blanding FL before
being permanently assigned to the 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry
Division. He went overseas with this unit in February
1944 via Boston. The division landed across Omaha Beach France on June
10, 1944. The 120th Infantry captured Monmartin-en-Graignes the
following day and then defended the Vire-Taute Canal line. The 120th
Infantry subsequently assaulted across the Vire-Taute Canal on July 7,
1944, establishing a bridgehead at St Jean-de-Day which the 3rd Armored
Division exploited. As the division advanced on St Lo it checked a
German counterattack along the main Hauts-Vents Highway on July 11, 1944
and Pont Hebert fell after protracted fighting July 14. Patrols reached
the Periers-St Lo Road on July 18 and the division attacked across it
July 25, 1944 to drive beyond St. Lo during Operation COBRA. It
was during this action that Corporal William Foehl Jr. was killed in action on July
28, 1944 in the vicinity of Hebecrevon and Gonniviere, France Surviving
him was his wife Mary, and his parents, who lived at 6220
Westfield Avenue in Pennsauken NJ. After the war his body was brought back to the United States,
and he is buried at Arlington Cemetery in Pennsauken NJ, next to his
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