Soldier Details

Division:

Army
, 
Company K, 406th Infantry

Highest Rank:

Private

Theater of Operation:

Other

Served:

Nov 17, 1942 - Feb 22, 1943

Honored By:

Les Shively

Biography

Leslie Straley was born in 1903 in Ellsworth, KS. He enlisted in the Army in 1942 at the age of 39 years old at Fort Leavenworth, KS. After 3 months and 16 days he was honorably discharged, to accept employment in the essential War Industry at Camp Maxey, TX on 2/22/1943. Straley died in 1984 and is buried in The Buckeye Cemetery in Kanopolis, KS.