Anthony BARCOTT

 

 

"Tony"

  

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NUMBER OF SERVICE39176375
AGE34 yo
DATE OF BIRTH21 Mai 1910 Everett
ETATSnohomish WASHINGTON
FAMILY

Single

Frère : Frank

RANKCorporal
FONCTION 
JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENT Retail managers NE
DATE of ENLISTEMENT1 June 1942 Tacoma WASHINGTON 
BATTALION440th Anti-Aircraft Arty (Automatic Weapons) Battalion
DIVISION  Group
DATE OF DEATH28 July 1944ii
STATUSKIA
PLACE OF DEATH 
CEMETERY TEMPORARY

 

CEMTERY TEMPORARY of  -- N°--

blosville

Story of Cemetery Temporary 

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CEMETERYNORMANDY AMERICAN CEMETERY of Colleville

Map of Normandy American Cemetery

GRAVE
PlotRowGrave
G2718
DECORATION

Purple Heart

World War II Victory Medal 

Combat Infantryman Badge

 

Photo FDLM

victory medal

combat infantryman badge

 

us army aaa
STORY

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A portion of the 440th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion. Cpl. Anthony Barcott is in the back row, first man on the right.



Cpl. Anthony Barcott grew up in a vibrant Slavic community in Everett, Wash.

where he opened a paint and wallpaper store with his brother, Frank. When the war came to America, the brothers chose who would enlist and who would keep the store.

Since Anthony was unmarried, he enlisted in the Army, in Tacoma, Wash., after which he was sent to anti-aircraft training. 

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A 40mm gun similar to the one that Barcott's battery used while on the bridge over the Vire.

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The tread way bridge built by the 105th Engineer Battalion on the Vire River.  
Assigned to the 440thAAA (Anti-Aircraft Artillery) Battalion, he was shipped out to England in December 1943 and landed in Normandy on D+3. On July 20, 1944 all four batteries of the battalion received missions to protect four bridges on the Vire River and a Ninth Air Force airstrip, A-11 Sainte-Lambert. On July 28, during Operation Cobra, the breakout from St. Lô, 12 enemy aircraft attacked the battalion. Battery ‘A’, Barcott’s battery, had its 40mm Bofors guns positioned around a bridge on the Vire where they engaged the German aircraft that were illuminated by flares. Barcott was killed by a direct hit from an anti-personnel bomb. He was 34 years old.
 

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A bridge at St. Fromond over the Vire River today. Barcott would have held a bridge similar to this one.

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