Julius Johnson Freemon
Rank: Sergeant
Branch: Army
UT Major/Affiliation: Business Administration 1940-1943
Hometown: Lawrenceburg, TN
- Feb. 20, 1920 – Dec. 5, 1944
- Born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee
- Business Administration 1940-1943
- UT Student when he enlisted in 1942
- https://www.fold3.com/record/84035057/julius-j-freemon-wwii-army-enlistment-records
- Sergeant- Army
- Heavy Machine Gun Squad, Co D, 330th Inf Reg, 83 Inf Div. KIA in the Hurtgen Forest.
- Sergeant Freemon was a member of D Company. The morning report for August 2, 1944 on page 2 lists him joining D Company as a Corporal from the 41st Replacement Battalion on July 29, 1944. Page 23, for August 18, 1944, lists his promotion to Sergeant as of August 16, 1944.
- https://83rdinfdivdocs.org/heroes/serial/14119106
- Buried at Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial in Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium
- Also memorialized at the Freemon Cemetery in Lawrence County, Tennessee.
Julius Johnson Freemon (Feb. 20, 1920 – Dec. 5, 1944) was born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. He had been attending the University of Tennessee for Business Administration since 1940 when he enlisted in the United States Armed Forces in 1942. Freemon was deployed to France in July 1944 as a corporal, but was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and put in command as a heavy machine squad leader of Company D in the 330th Infantry Regiment, 83rd infantry Division on August 18, 1944. Sgt. Freemon was killed in action on December 5, 1944 during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest near the Belgium-Germany border in the heavy fighting that signaled the start of the German offensive and the Battle of the Bulge. He is memorialized at the Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial in Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium and the Freemon Cemetery in Lawrence County, Tennessee.
