Buchanan County

 
Pvt. Loraine M. Bradley

 

 

 

Loraine Marwood Bradley was born Oct. 3, 1903 to Wright and Lillie Wolgamot Bradley. He died June 29, 1944 and is buried in Fairbank Cemetery, Fairbank, IA.

Pvt. Bradley served with the U.S. Army in World War II. He was a member of the 4546th Anti-Aircraft Artillery AW Battalion, Co. C and died when the convoy he was part of was attacked by U-boat 984 and four ships were torpedoed. He was one of the 76 fatalities from the H.G. Blasdel whose bodies were recovered. His name also appears at the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Coton, Cambridgeshire, England.

Source: ancestry.com