Alfred Balliet

Trail City, SD

1938, 2749, Sand Lake, BF-2,
1938-40, 2749, Miles City, MT,

Alfred Balliet was born June 6, 1919, in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He was the third oldest of ten children born to Jacob and Dorothea Balliet. Alfred Balliet was a graduate of McLaughlin High School. He attended Nettleton Business College a year before going into the service. While at Nettleton he was a Golden Glove Boxer.

Alfred was with the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment stationed in Australia, New Guinea, Dutch East Indies and the Philippines. On Corregidor Island, February 25, 1945, a grenade hit him in the chest, and he died of wounds within two hours. He had served nearly four years as a paratrooper and had been overseas for nearly 28 months when he was killed. He is buried at Trail City Cemetery, South Dakota.

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