Date of birth:

May 4th, 1914 (Kenedy/Texas, United States)

Date of death:

December 19th, 1944 (Noville/province of Luxembourg, Belgium)

Nationality:

American

At 19th December 1944 an 88 shell landed in the street outside the command post in Noville. The explosion shattered the clothes closet and Colonel Laprade and Major Desobry were struck down by fragments. Colonel Laprade was killed and Major Desobry wounded.

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• - Rapport, L., Northwood Jr., A, Rendezvous with Destiny – A History of the 101st Airborne Division, The Battery Press, Nashville, USA, 2000 (reprint of the original 1948 edition not the later 1965 second edition)
  - ww2-airborne.us
  - 101airborneww2.com