Dries Jr. , Joseph Otto

Rank and Name, Private First Class Joseph Otto Dries Jr.

Unit/Placed in, 31th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division “Rock of the Marne”.

Operation Dragoon

Was the code name for the landing operation of the Allied invasion of Provence (Southern France) on 15 August 1944.

Joseph is born approx. on 26 Nov. 1923 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Father, Joseph Otto Dries.

Mother, Euginia M. B. (Schowalter).

Sister(s), Mariann B. Frances M. Eugenia E. and Joanne S. Dries.

Brother(s), John J. and Gerald S. Dries.

Spouse, Isabella Biesek.

Joseph enlisted the service in Wisconsin with service number # 36811757.

Joseph was KIA in the Operation Dragoon (Landing South France) near Brignoles, France on 18 Aug. 1944, he is honored with a Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Joseph was first buried at Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial in France.

Joseph is reburied in 1948 at Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA.

Thanks to, https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GZ3P-1N7

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com and ww2-europe.com.

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker

Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano

National Historian