The fallen resistance people in Limburg

O.D. Hamby

StSgt (Staff Sergeant) O.D. Hamby, Service ID 14016408, 2nd Armored Division, 66th Regiment, 2nd Battalion, E Company
Bronze Star, Purple Heart (USA). Croix de guerre 1939-1945 (F) [1.1][1.2]

The following text is taken from the book Valkenburg 80 jaar bevrijd (Valkenburg 80 Years Liberated) [2]
O.D. Hamby was born in 1912 in Shelby County Tennessee.
Killed in action on September 18, 1944 at 6 p.m. by mortar fire at Valkenburg. He died of major wounds to his neck and was buried at Fosses-la-Ville on September 20, 1944 and after closure of that cemetery he was reburied at Henri-Chapelle [3] Plot G Row 5 Grave 47.

SSgt Hamby was one of the 65 soldiers killed in battle during the liberation of the Limburg region of the Netherlands and Belgium. [1.1][1.2]
His name is commemorated on the 2nd Armored Division Memorial in Geleen, The Netherlands. [5]

Footnotes

1. 1. findagrave.com O.D. Hamby
   2. American War Memorials Overseas O. D. Hamby
2. Valkenburg 80 jaar bevrijd, VIII – We Do Remember, p.142
3. Shelby County Tennessee, Wikipedia • Nederlands • Deutsch • English • Français • Português
4. Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial
5. Geleen, Hell on Wheels memorial
   1. uswarmemorials.org
   2. 4en5mei.nl
6. More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg