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Bruce O. Somers

Technical Sergeant, U.S. Army

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Company I
132nd Infantry Regiment
Americal Division

Entered the Service from: New Jersey
Died: April 16, 1945
Buried at: Section C, Garve #162
                  Oakland Cemetery
                  Adams & Ramona Avenue
                  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104 
Awards: Silver Star, Purple Heart

BRUCE O'NEAL SOMERS was born in Pennsylvania on August 8, 1921. He had completed four years of high school and was married when, on February 27, 1942 he was inducted into the United States Army at Camden NJ. 

Technical Sergeant Somers died of wounds received in combat  on the island of Cebu in the Philippines on April 16, 1945. He was brought home after the war and was buried at Oakland Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Bruce Somers is remembered on the Collingswood, New Jersey World War II war memorial.


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