Rank and Name, Private First Class Lewis Oscar Aikey.
Unit/Placed in, 461st Anti Air Craft Artillery (AW) Battalion.
Lewis is born approx. on Jan. 3, 1922 in Lewistown, Mifflin County Pennsylvania.
Father, Lewis Edmund Aikey.
Mother, Esther May (Hockenberry) Aikey.
Sister(s), Kathleen M. Grace Elizabeth, Esther Louise,. and Ruth Effie. Aikey.
Lewis enlisted the service in Pennsylvania with service number # 33259650.
Lewis was KIA while defending a Bridge he got shot in stomach by machinegun fire in the German Counterattack on Sep. 20, 1944, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Silver Star Medal, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Lewis Is buried/mentioned at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial, Henri-Chapelle, Arrondissement de Verviers, Liège, Belgium.
He also has a Memorial Grave at Lind Memorial Cemetery, Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Thanks to, http://www.69th-infantry-division.com/histories/461.html https://wwiiregistry.abmc.gov/honoree-plaque/?honoree_id=1666587
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Lewis O. Aikey
Silver Star
AWARDED FOR ACTIONS
DURING World War II
Service: Army
Rank: Private First Class
Battalion: 461st Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AW) Battalion
GENERAL ORDERS:
Headquarters, V Corps, General Orders No. 69 (1944)
CITATION:
Citation Needed – SYNOPSIS: The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes Pride in presenting the Silver Star (Posthumously) to Private First Class Lewis O. Aikey, United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving with the 461st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion (Automatic Weapons), in action in March 1944. On that date, Private Aikey’s battalion was assigned to protect a bridge built by the Army over the Sauer River between Luxembourg and Germany. When a German counterattack forced the forward American troops to withdraw back into Luxembourg, guarding the bridge became paramount. Private First Class Aikey and Private James M. Filson, assigned to defend the bridge, were mortally wounded and their half-track destroyed by enemy fire.
