Before I return to the last Normandy story and then move onto Market Garden and The Island I will make a correction for my last post. Before going to the Archives last week I had made the assumption that T/4 Lloyd Greene a medic with the 506 and PFC Lloyd W Green of I/506 were the same person. PFC Green is listed as being killed in Germany in April of 1945 and this was the only other Green I could find. It turns out that they were two different people with similar names (not as bad as Eugene E. Smith and Eugene A Smith of I/506
). The status for PFC Green on the 506infantry site is wrong. PFC Green was a Toccoa man of I Company who shipped out to England with the rest of the unit in September 43. In February 44 he was one of two-dozenish men in the unit to be awarded the "Good Conduct Medal". Sadly on May 20, 1944, barely two weeks before the big invasion, PFC Lloyd W. Green was killed while on leave in Aldbourne, after being hit by an RAF truck. He was I Company's first casualty and as far as I see the Battalion's second death.