7/9/1944
T/SGT William C. Tait was killed on 9 July 1944. T/SGT Tait was assigned to 6th Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squad (Separate), Ninth Air Force. T/SGT Tait was killed when a stockpile of ammunition, mines, and grenades exploded for unknown reasons in Cretteville, France. T/SGT had been taking inventory of the squad’s collection of unexploded ordnance that had been placed in a slit trench awaiting demolition at the time of the explosion.
T/SGT Tait was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal.
The Raws-Tait VFW Post #7334, Somerdale, New Jersey, is named in part for T/SGT Tait.
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