Person:Sgt Arbogast (2)

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Sgt Junior Arbogast
b.9 Sep 1920 •Valley Head, Randolph County, West Virginia, USA
d.26 Mar 1945 Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
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m. 16 Oct 1912
  1. Raymond Wesley Arbogast1914 - 1988
  2. Orval Dexter Arbogast1917 - 1991
  3. Sgt Junior Arbogast1920 - 1945
  4. Troy Raleigh Arbogast1922 - 2011
  5. Robert Arbogast1925 - 1994
  6. Lillian Pauline Arbogast1928 - 2008
  7. Freddie Arbogast1930 - 2002
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Name Sgt Junior Arbogast
Gender Male
Birth? 9 Sep 1920 •Valley Head, Randolph County, West Virginia, USA
Death? 26 Mar 1945 Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Burial? Valley Head Cemetery Valley Head, Randolph County, West Virginia, USA

Sergeant Junior B. Arbogast, 24, died serving the United States of America in WWII. He was born in Valley Head, West Virginia, September 9, 1920, the son of Walter and Eva Arbogast.

He is survived along with his parents; five brothers, Raymond Arbogast, Orval Arbogast, Keith Arbogast, Freddie Arbogast of Valley Head and Troy Arbogast of Grafton, West Virginia; two sisters, Edith Arbogast and Lillian Arbogast Dodrill, both of Valley Head.

Services were held at the Valley Head Methodist Church. The Reverend Nay of Valley Head and Lt. Col. Arthur M. Senne, retired Army chaplain of Elkins, West Virginia conducted services. Interment is at Valley Head Cemetery where military rites were conducted by the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Sources: Inter-Mountain Newspaper, WV Culture site, and Ancestry.com

The circumstances surrounding Sergeant Arbogast's death: He was assigned to Company C of the 2833rd Engineering Battalion of the 540th Combat Engineering Regiment. He was killed during the crossing of the Rhine River at Worms, Germany when his unit came under attack from German artillery and mortar fire. The mission of his combat group was to support the armies by keeping them moving and by impeding the enemy. They were engaged in supplying motor powered boats and in constructing pontoon bridges for crossing the Rhine.---Leon Armentrout

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106613776/junior-bruce-arbogast

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