• June 21, 1918 – February 6, 1945
• Cleveland, TN
• Agriculture 1936-1937
• Army Pvt
• 109 Infantry 28th Division
• He was killed in the final days of the battle for the Colmar Pocket. His division the 28th was originally a Pennsylvania National Guard unit. Their division patch was the Keystone for the Keystone State. The patch was red in color and the Germans after the bloody fighting in the Huertgen Forest called the division “The Bloody Bucket”. They can best be described as a ‘hard luck’ outfit as after the horrendous casualties they suffered in the Huertgen Forest they were moved to the a quite area in Luxembourg. They were in fact in the direct line of attack by the Germans at the start of the Battle of the Bulge. were in not for their stand which is described in a book ‘Alamo in the Ardennes” the Germans would have taken Bastogne. After the heavy fighting there they were reconstituted and send south to Alsace where they would again take heavy casualties in the final push to take the Colmar Pocket and captured the city of Colmar.
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• Buried at Epinal, France at Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial

Charles Roscoe Finnell (June 21, 1918 – February 6, 1945) was from Cleveland, Tennessee. He attended the University of Tennessee for agriculture from 1936 to 1937. He served as a Private in the United States Army as part of the 28th Infantry Division’s 109th Infantry Battalion. He was killed in action during the 28th Division’s push to take Colmar, France in Alsace-Lorraine on February 6, 1945. He is buried at the Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in Lorraine, France.

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