Missing SGT Frazier, Billy – 35293786
About SGT Frazier – 35293786
| Name: Frazier, Billy |
| Rank: Sergeant (SGT) |
| Service number: 35293786 |
| Status: Missing in Action (MIA) |
| Missing since: September 19, 1944 |
| Unit: 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, Company C, Mortar Squad |
| Start project: 2015 |
| End project: Open |
| Commemorated: Tablets of the Missing, Belgium Henri-Chapelle U.S. Cemetery and Memorial |
| Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart |
| Research by: To be determined |
| Case ID: # 0028 |
Circumstances
SGT Billy Frazier enlisted on 5 November 1943. He took basic infantry training at Camp Wheeler in Macon, Georgia, and shipped out to England in April 1944.
His unit landed on Utah Beach on 13 June, one week after D-Day. He was in the battle for Cherborgh, St. Lo, the Liberation of Paris, and then went all the way to the Schnee Eifel Forest.
On 19 September 1944, a counterattack by two companies of the SS Regiment Deutschland with tanks and artillery hit the under-strength C Company, East of Schlausenbach just within the German Border. Pinned down by enemy gunfire, 20 year-old Billy Frazier held his ground in a foxhole that day. After the enemy retreated, C Company counted survivors and tallied the number of wounded. SGT Frazier wasn’t in either group.
September 20, 1945 he was declared officially dead one day and one year after he went missing in action.
Family
Father: Clark W. Frazier
Mother: Treva Frazier