William C. Copeland

ID: 38286276
Entered the Service From: Texas
Rank: Sergeant

Service: U.S. Army, 335th Infantry Regiment, 84th Infantry Division

Died: Friday, December 01, 1944
Buried at: Netherlands American Cemetery
Location: Margraten, Netherlands
Plot: I Row: 3 Grave: 15

Awards: Purple Heart

Part of WE WERE THE LINE, History of Company G, 335 Infantry Regiment, 84th Infantry Division....

The second and third platoons with the machine guns attached moved forward toward an antitank ditch with but slight resistance. About five minutes after they left, Stein brought back twelve prisoners and someone else brought five. Of the seventeen prisoners we took, four were vaunted SS troopers. Only the third platoon and a few men of the second got to the anti-tank ditch. The second platoon and the machine guns stopped about one hundred fifty yards short of the ditch in a communication trench. Hughey, Sadler, and Perez were wounded near the dead end of a road from Beeck, which was to our left. Sgt. William C. Copeland was killed as the second platoon tried to make its way forward to the anti-tank ditch.....