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PFC Floyd Haden Reese
8 Jul 1924 – 15 Feb 1945
| Birth | 8 Jul 1924 |
| Death | 15 Feb 1945 |
| Cemetery | Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila , Capital District , National Capital Region , Philippines |
| Added by | steve s on 28 Mar 2016 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56750154 |
Bio
Floyd H Reese (1924 Texas) of Leon County, Texas enlisted as a Private (S/N 38419357) in the U.S. Army on 22 March 1943 in Houston, Texas. He was single and had completed Grammar school. “On February 3, the 145th arrived at the doorstep of Manila. Twenty thousand Japanese troops were embedded in Manila with hundreds of guns of all caliber and thousands of mines entangled within an elaborate system of concrete bunkers, pillboxes and building fortifications. Virtually every house, hotel room, church, office and basement in each building, down to the crypts at the cemeteries, had been converted into fortified bunkers manned with heavily armed Japanese. The Japanese were determined to hold Manila and make it a turning point for the Battle For Luzon and the war. What ensued were twenty days of non-stop fighting, with the U.S. forces going house by house, building by building, floor by floor, room by room, crypt by crypt in hand to hand fighting. Manila was turned into a rubble pile. Over four thousand Japanese were killed, thousands more wounded, and the rest either captured or routed out of the city into the surrounding countryside. American casualties exceeded four thousand killed or wounded and forty percent of the 145th were either killed or otherwise rendered unable to fight.” Pfc. F. H. Reese Fatally Wounded In Philippines Pfc. Floyd Haden Reese, 20. U. S. Army, Infantry, was wounded in action in the Philippines and later died of the wounds, according to Information received Wednesday morning by relatives from the war department. The time of the wounding and death of the soldier is not known here. Born in the Chatfield community, Pvt. Reese entered the armed forces two years ago at Buffalo. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Mallie Reese, San Antonio; six sisters, Mrs. Barney Parker, Mrs. L. J. Foster and Miss Patsy Reese, all of Corsicana; Mrs. A. D. Talbott, Buffalo; Mrs. Eddie Brentley Bay, St. Louis, Miss, and Miss Janice Reese, San Antonio; four brothers Jesse, Abner and Willard Reese, all of Buffalo and Whittie Reese, Centervllle, and other relatives. Source: Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light (Corsicana, Texas), Friday, 09 March 1945, page 12.
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- Delia R. "Dee" Reese Haigood 1907–2002
- Coty Reese Talbott 1909–1999
- Lida Mae Reese Foster 1911–1993
- Whitfield Benjamin Reese 1915–1963
- Abner Wesley Reese 1919–1991
- Janie Faye Reese DuBois 1921–1993
- Mary Janice Reese Ivy 1927–1982
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