Holt, Louis Pounds
- Date of birth:
- January 16th, 1922 (De Kalb-Bowie County/Texas, the United States of America)
- Date of death:
- September 20th, 1944 (Nijmegen/Gelderland province, the Netherlands)
- Service number:
- 20818921
- Nationality:
- American
Biography
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Purple Heart
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Private
- Unit:
- H Company, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American'
- Awarded for:
- Operation Avalanche
First Purple Heart awarded for his injuries received in combat in Italy December 1943.
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Private
- Unit:
- H Company, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American'
- Awarded for:
- Operation Market Garden
Posthumously awarded as Oak Leaf Cluster
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Private
- Unit:
- H Company, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American'
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Private
- Unit:
- H Company, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American'
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Private
- Unit:
- H Company, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American'
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Private
- Unit:
- H Company, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American'
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Private
- Unit:
- H Company, 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division 'All American'
Sources
- Photo 1: Findagrave.com by Don J
- Photo 2: Findagrave.com by tdemars
- - LUNTEREN, F. VAN, Spearhead of the fifth army, Casemate, Havertown USA & Oxford UK, 2016.
- LUNTEREN, F. VAN, The Battle of the Bridges, Casemate, 2017.
- MEGELLAS, J., De weg naar Berlijn, Mynx, Amsterdam, Nederland, 2005.
- STEENBERGER, D. e.a., De Oversteek, De Gelderlander, Nijmegen, 2013.
- https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=31577
- https://www.oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl/persoon/holt/c5177676-d77e-4327-821c-20344ca4a175
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38027777/louis-pounds-holt
- https://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/504/504_trp_3.html
- https://www.honorstates.org/profiles/532395/
- https://www.ancestry.com/
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