Albert Powhatan King

Graduating Class
1941

Major
Agronomy

Activities at Clemson
Cadet Second Lieutenant, Company B, First Battalion, First Regiment; Kappa Alpha Sigma.

Hometown
Ninety Six, SC

Family
Wife: Bessie Davis; daughter Nancy Henretta King

Service & Rank
Army, Captain, Commanding Officer

Unit
Company C, 313th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division

Awards/Citations
Purple Heart

Date of Birth
Apr 30, 1919

Date of Death
Nov 23, 1944

Details of Death
Killed in Action in France

Burial Details
Epinal American Cemetery: Plot: B Row: 28 Grave: 56

Barrow Stone Location
SW

Personal Remembrances

Captain, Company C, 313th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division. Killed in Strausburg, November 23, 1944 during the afternoon. Taken back by Captain William Drake to Epinal and buried with full military honors the day after Thanksgiving, Garrison of Strausburg.

Additional Information

Activities of the 79th Infantry Division at the time of Captain King’s Death

After training in the United Kingdom from 17 April 1944, the 79th Infantry Division landed on Utah Beach, Normandy, 12-14 June and entered combat 19 June 1944, with an attack on the high ground west and northwest of Valognes and high ground south of Cherbourg.

The 79th cut across the Moselle and Meurthe Rivers, 13-23 September, cleared the Foret de Parroy in a severe engagement, 28 September-9 October, and attacked to gain high ground east of Embermenil, 14-23 October, when it was relieved, 24 October. After rest and training at Luneville, the Division returned to combat with an attack from the Mignevine Montiguy area, 13 November 1944, which carried it across the Vezouse and Moder Rivers, 18 November-10 December through Haguenau in spite of determined enemy resistance, and into the Siegfried Line, 17-20 December.

Source – https://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/cbtchron/cc/079id.htm

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The State 12/6/1944