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SSgt. Everett M. Crozier, of 19300 Muskoka Avenue, seriously wounded in France on June 16, 1944, died the following day, according to a report received by his wife, Helen, and parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Crozier. SSgt. Crozier was with the 325th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He enlisted in March 1942, was trained at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana and Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, and went overseas in April 1943. He had fought in the African and Italian campaigns. A graduate of Painesville High School, SSgt. Crozier worked at the Rayon Industrial Company in Painesville. He was survived by his wife who lived with her father, Charles Wohlfart, in Mentor, his parents and his brother, Sgt. Edward, who was stationed on Bougainville.

SSgt. Crozier is interred in the American Cemetery at Normandy. (Normandy Cemetery is situated on a cliff overlooking Omaha Beach and the English Channel just east of St-Laurent-sur-Mer and northwest of Bayeux in Colleville-sur-Mer).

Information as gathered from the Cleveland Press & Plain Dealer, July 16 & 17 1944 and the American Battle Monuments Commission web site.