Private First Class Bose FRANK KELLEY, JR. 18133498 KIA

Private First Class Bose FRANK KELLEY, JR. 18133498 KIA, US Army Airborne Infantry. Brother of Lieutenant WILLIAM GEORGE KELLEY KIA, Private EDGAR REW KELLEY KIA, Sergeant JACK R. KELLEY. Husband of Betty Elizabeth Miller Kelley and son of Mr. and Mrs. Bose Frank Kelley of 2920 Hardy Street, Shreveport Louisiana. He was born November 8, 1919, and attended Queensboro Grammar School and Fair Park High School, Shreveport Louisiana. On May 18, 1942, he entered the Army of the United States at the age of 22, in the Airborne Infantry at Camp Livingston and received basic and advanced training at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, at Fort Benning, Georgia, and at Alliance Army Air Base, Alliance, Nebraska. In October, 1943, he went to England for final combat training and staging for the Invasion of Normandy (ETO). He served in 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment 82nd Airborne Division. He landed with the Paratroopers behind the enemy lines in the D-Day Invasion of Normandy Beach on June 6, 1944. This paratrooper was killed on D-Day, June 6, 1944, on Normandy Beach, in the initial invasion of Fortress Europe at the age of 24. The Purple Heart Medal (PHM), awarded to him posthumously, was sent to his wife, Mrs. Bose Frank Kelley, Jr. 

Source:

1- THE FIGHTING MEN OF LOUISIANA – LOUISIANA HISTORICAL INSTITUTE – 1946

2- US Headstone and Interment records for US Military