Minnesota Discovery Center

Hugh Edmund Casey, None

conflict:World War II
branch:Army
rank:
serial number:
location:Chelveston, England
enlistment date:June 30, 1943
place enlisted:Fort Snelling, MN
discharge date:April 27, 1946
place discharged:Dibble Gen. Hosp., Menlo Park, CA
decorations: American Campaign Medal (1941-1946)
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (1941-1946)
Good Conduct Medal (U. S. Armed Forces)
Purple Heart (1932-)
Service Star(s)
World War II Victory Medal (1941-1946)
history:Wounded in the right leg and knee when his plane was shot down over Leipzig, captured by Hitler Youth, Hospitalized in Berlin and interrogated in Frankfurt au Main, and liberated by General Patton's Third Army.
service documents:
references:Hometown Heroes: The St. Louis County World War Two Project (2004?), p. 52.

Personal Information

date of birth:None
birth place:
home town:Chisholm, MN
date of death:None
father:
mother:
siblings:
school:None

Last update: 9/01/2015