Marsh, Louis V. (01056160)

Louis V. Marsh
Personal details
Born	1920
Died	16 March 2005
Nativity	United States
Religion	Catholic
Awards	Silver Star
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Army
Arm / service	Coast Artillery Corps
ASN	01056160
Rank	Second Lieutenant
Camp Ritchie	Class 15 (4 January – 3 March 1944)
Section	7A
Teams	MII 427-G, MII 478

Awards and honors

Silver Star

• Listed in By The Numbers/Awards (from Ritchie Boy Secrets by Beverley Driver Eddy).

Teammates

Team — MII 427-G

Team — MII 478

These are other soldiers listed on the same team roster. People moved between teams; overlapping service dates are not always documented.

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Louis V. Marsh (1920 – 16 March 2005) was a Ritchie Boy (from United States; Catholic) who trained at Camp Ritchie in class 15.

Biography

Louis V. Marsh (1920–2005) was a U.S. Army officer and Ritchie Boy. Commissioned as a second lieutenant, he arrived at Camp Ritchie on 4 January 1944 for class 15, a French course. His Camp Ritchie certificate records that he completed the course on 3 March 1944. He was released from Camp Ritchie on 10 April 1944 and embarked on the SS Queen Mary for Scotland. After additional training in Britain, he was assigned to MII Team 407, attached to the 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division.

Marsh was later promoted to first lieutenant and served as officer in charge of MII Team 478G, attached to XXI Corps. His Silver Star citation credits him with gallantry near Laneuville, France, on 16 September 1944. It states that, while serving with MII Team 407, he accompanied his section into the town despite sniper and sporadic machine-gun fire, helped drive the remaining German force into a central locality, and participated in an action that killed three enemy soldiers, wounded one, captured eighteen, destroyed a machine-gun position, and captured additional equipment.

The 137th Infantry Regiment after-action report describes the related operation involving a four-man party led by Captain George T. Schneider and including Lieutenant Marsh; its narrative dates that action to 15 September 1944 and records the same casualties, prisoners, and machine-gun position. Marsh died on 16 March 2005.

Research notes

• MII 478 w/XXI Corps
• Silver Star
• OCR (88%) of `6072873556067848.jpg` (CAMP RITCHIE, MILITARY INTELLIGENCE TRAINING CENTER, Camp Ritchie) — dated 3 March 1944

Gallery

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Technical record

Field	Imported value
Approx Age at Death	85
Class_ASN	56160
Class_Name	MARSH, Louis V.
match_method	asn_partial_name_exact
row_source	both

Sources

• Camp Ritchie Museum, Inc. (The Ritchie History Museum), Classes 1–31 roster data
• Dan Gross research spreadsheets, including original Excel timeline/roster work, combined with other research and records
• NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
• 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
• Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2023-01-22 (1 post)
• OCR-reviewed Facebook gallery document: 6072873556067848.jpg
• Camp Ritchie Military Intelligence Training Center certificate, class 15, 3 March 1944
• Photograph from the Louis V. Marsh gallery
• Louis V. Marsh portrait from the wartime gallery
• Louis V. Marsh gallery photograph
• Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 22 January 2023 (Silver Star citation, after-action report, service account, and gallery)