Union County Veterans Remembrance Committee

Permanent Veteran Record

Earl E. Durban

BranchArmy
RankFirst Sergeant
Conflict / EraWorld War II
Years of Service1941 – 1944
Date of Birth08/20/1917
Date of Death10/07/2001
HometownDarby, OH
AwardsBronze Star, Purple Heart, Purple Heart (2); Bronze Star (2)
Burial LocationJerome Twp: Herriott (Frankfort)
Monument PaverNo
SourceHEROES FROM THE HEARTLAND (Clauda Robinson Bartow, 2002), p. 59; No DD-214 recorded as of 10/16/2007 at Union Co. Recorder's Office

Overseas service: Africa; Italy. School: Watkins High School. Africa, Anzio Beach; Tunisian and Italian Campaigns; Served in a reconnaissance platoon in Tunisia with uncommon valor; earned bronze star medal "fought his way out; then fought his way back in, with supplies"

Printed from the UCVRC Veterans Database · Courthouse Veterans Monument