OBIT: Floyd E. BEAL, PFC, 1944, Berlin, Somerset County, PA

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FLOYD E. BEAL

Berlin Boy One of First to Die on D Day in France
Pfc. Floyd E. Beal Killed on Normandy Beachhead, June 6th

  A message from the War Department notified relatives last Friday that Pfc. 
Floyd E. Beal of Berlin was killed in action in France on June 6.  He was the 
son of Simon Beal of Berlin.  His mother, Margaret Wyant Beal, died about five 
years ago.  The young man was 20 years old.
  Floyd Beal was inducted into the U.S. Army on March 5, 1943.  He received his 
basic training at Fort McClellan, Ala., and in June, 1943, was sent to Shenango 
Personnel Replacement Depot at Greenville, Pa.  From there he was sent to New 
York and last July he was sent to England and was there 10 months, up until the 
start of the invasion of France, June 6.  It was in the struggle to get a 
foothold on the coast of Normandy on D-day that young Beal sacrificed his life.  
He was serving with the Infantry.  He had not been home since he entered the 
Army.
  Besides his father he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Catherine Reynolds, 
Garrett, and Mrs. Eugene Will, Meyersdale, and one brother, George A. Beal, 
Berlin.  He attended Berlin-Brothersvalley High School and before induction was 
doing farming and truck driving.
  A memorial service in his honor will be conducted on Sunday, July 16, at 2 
o'clock in the Methodist Church, Berlin, of which he was a member.  Rev. 
Trimpey, pastor of the Berlin church, and Rev. Richard, pastor of the 
Shanksville Lutheran parish, will conduct the memorial service.

Meyersdale Republican, July 13, 1944