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- North Tonawanda NY Evening News - 8/22/1944
Hope that their son, Pvt. Norman
M. Brock, reported missing
in France on July 22, might have
been taken prisoner was crushed
today when Mr. and Mrs. Brock
of 72 Long's avenue received a
War Department report that he
had been killed in action.
Pvt. Brock entered the service
in December, 1943. After training
at Camp Blanding, Fla., and at
Meade, Md., he went to England
in June, 1944 and soon afterwards
to France. In his last letter to
his family, Pvt. Brock said that
his command was moving so rapidly
that any mail which might
have been sent to him had failed
to reach him.
He attended Tonawanda high
school and was employed by the
Spaulding Fibre company on
Wheeler street before entering
he service.
Besides his parents Pvt Brock
is survived by three brothers,
Staff Sergeant Lionel Brock, in
the ground crew of the 9th AAF
in England; Warren and Donald
at home, and two sisters, Mrs.
Myrtle Brennon of Tonawanda and
Miss Alberta Brock at home.
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Abt 1926 - 1944 (~ 18 years)