Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: Headquarters & Service Troop, 44th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Entered service: 4-Mar-1941
Enlisted: Trenton, New Jersey
Enlisted by: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Date of birth: 8-Aug-1918
Hometown: New Castle County, Delaware
Marital status: Single, with dependents. Parents: Clinton Eugene Wooleyhan and Clara M Boggs
Campaign: World War II
Date of casualty: 27-Feb-1945
Age at death: 26
Cause of death: Killed in action.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SSGT Homer Burton Wooleyhan
TEC4 Rudolph Zellner
Location of fatality: Brachelen, Germany
Place of interment: Sudlersville Cemetery, Sudlersville, Maryland, USA
Originally buried in the United States Military Cemetery, Margraten, Holland. Repatriated March, 1949.
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