Garland Wayne "Buck" Donaldson - LST 531

Pvt. Garland Wayne "Buck" Donaldson
1st Engineering Special Brigade
3206th Quartermaster Service Co.
Name on the Wall of the Missing
Cambridge American Cemetery, England

 

Information Provided by Kenneth W. Beamer, Nephew

When Pvt. Garland Wayne "Buck" Donaldson was born on May 8, 1924, in Monroe County, Missouri, his father, Oaklie, was 41 and his mother, Allettie, was 42. He had four brothers and five sisters. He died on April 28, 1944, at the age of 19, when participating in Exercise Tiger.