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Pruett, Samuel Robert, LT.
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Casualty Info
Home Town Birmingham,AL
Last Address 3125 Norwood Boulevard Birmingham, AL (Wife~Ethel May Pruett)
Casualty Date Aug 16, 1944
Cause KIA-Died of Wounds
Reason Other Explosive Device
Location France
Conflict World War II
Location of Interment American Cemetery - Rhone, France
Wall/Plot Coordinates Tablets of the Missing (cenotaph)
LTjg Samuel R. Pruett, USNR (posthumously awarded the rank of full Lieutenant)
Commanding Officer, minesweeper YMS-24
YMS-24 was sunk during Operation Dragoon at Red Beach
Mined and sunk off St. Tropez, France in position 43º25'N, 06º43'E
Operation Dragoon was the Allied invasion of southern France on August 15, 1944. The invasion was initiated by an amphibious assault by elements of the U.S. Seventh Army, with a follow-up force made up primarily of the French First Army. Despite being a large and complex military operation with well-executed amphibious and airborne components, Operation Dragoon still remains largely unknown to this day.
