Profiles of Our Honorees
Profiles of Our Honorees
Lt. Andrew Edward Tuck III, US Army
80 Chatsworth Avenue, Larchmont
Age: 22
Graduated from LaSalle Military Academy, Oakdale, L.I.
Paratrooper, 506th Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne
Lt. Tuck was one of the youngest paratroop officers in the 101st Airborne and participated in parachute jumps in Normandy, Holland and Belgium. He was killed in a vehicle accident in Austria on July 7, 1945 (after V-E Day was declared).
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