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Pfc. Robert M. Ware, Jr., 32508457, HQ Battery, 320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division. Killed in Action on 6 June 1944 in Normandy, France. Born on 11 November 1921, he entered the service on 21 September 1942 from Crugers, New York.
Pfc. Ware departed for D-Day on Gliders with the rest of the 320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion with the first glider touching down on French soil at 0406 hours, 6 June 1944. Most of the battalion’s guns were lost during the landings with 6 of the 8 gliders used by the HQ Battery being destroyed on landing and the 7th glider being damaged (2 soldiers were killed and 9 injured during the landings). It appears that all of the gliders landed within 5000 yards of the Landing Zone. Pfc. Ware was killed during the day’s fighting by gun shot wounds to the head and body.

He is buried at the Evergreen Memorial Cemetery, Schenectady, New York. He was 22 years old.

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