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Harold Joseph Premo, the son of Paul and Nellie Premo, was born on April 28, 1921, in Chasm Falls, New York. He was educated in Chasm Falls, Malone, and Westville, New York. Harold learned how to be a blacksmith from his father. He lived in Amsterdam, New York and was a blacksmith for the American Locomotive Company.
In April 1943, Harold enrolled in the United States Army. He held the rank of Private First Class and served with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne. Harold was shot while parachuting behind enemy lines on D-Day, June 6, 1944. He is buried in the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, France.
Sources: Find A Grave, Ancestry
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
For the Fallen
Laurence Binyon