179th Infantry Regiment
            Distinctive Unit InsigniaTechnician Fifth Grade Herschel NunnQuartermaster Corps Insignia

Left: 179th Infantry Regiment Distinctive Unit Insignia; Right Quartermaster Corps Insignia

Herschel Nunn
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Company H, 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, Oklahoma National Guard
and

134th Quartermaster Truck Company

Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, (possibly Rhineland and Central Europe) Occupation of Germany

1940

September 23: Enlisted in the Oklahoma National Guard.


Fort Sill: Basic training

Served in
Company H, 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division.

1941

September 25: Discharged.


1942

February 14: Married

September 25: Drafted,.

Trained at Fort Sill, Texas and Camp Claiborne, Louisiana.

385th training unit.

Assigned to an unknown unit.

1943

June 24: Deployed to Europe

1944

Normandy and Northern France Campaigns.

January: Hospitalized with a urinary tract infection.

Unknown: Hospitalized with appendicitis.

1945

Unknown: Transferred to the
134th Quartermaster Truck Company.

September 13: Discharged from the
134th Quartermaster Truck Company

1989

Died


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