Baskin, Thomas Houston

PFC Thomas Houston Baskin, Jr.

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Quick Facts

Significance:

Company H, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

Place of Birth:

Rutherford County, Tennessee

Date of Birth:

May 17, 1921

Place of Death:

Rösslerhof, Germany

Date of Death:

November 25, 1944

Place of Burial:

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Cemetery Name:

Stones River National Cemetery

Stories of Service and Sacrifice - Thomas Houston Baskin was born on May 17, 1921 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army in September 1942 and joined Company H, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. 

PFC Baskin served in North Africa and Sicily. On June 6, 1944, the regiment came ashore at Ohama Beach along with the first wave of Allied D-Day landings. Nearly 6 months later, Baskin was killed in action on November 25, 1944 in Rösslerhof, Germany after being shot in the thorax and was awarded a Purple Heart. Thomas is buried at Stones River National Cemetery in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Baskin Jr. rests in plot P-6263.