My name is Richard Raymond Trudeau. I am the son of Sgt. Raymond J. Trudeau, who was from Burlington, Vermont, and was inducted into the Army around March or April, 1943, and was killed in action April 7, 1945 in or around Rhynern or Hamm, Germany.

He served in the 95th Division, 378th Infantry, "I" Company. From one picture I have of him in uniform, he has a patch on the left shoulder that is a circle with AA inside of it.

In my research, mostly through the internet, I finally found that my father is buried at Margraten National Cemetery in the Netherlands. I did correspond with the cemetery and they sent a picture of his grave and and a complete package of information on the cemetery.

I was also very fortunate in meeting a man on the internet by the name of Paul Kater that lives in the Netherlands. After chatting with him and telling him that my father was buried at Margreten Cemetery, he made a special trip to the cemetary with his mother and sister; and took pictures and laid flowers on my fathers grave. I will be forever grateful to him and his family for doing this.

I must mention here that I did get some information from my mother about my fathers best friend prior to joining the army. His name is Ray Benway from Burlington, Vermont. I called him and talked with him and his wife Phyllis for about 45 minutes and he provided alot of information about my father. We were both very excited and it was like talking to a long lost relative.This was after 57 year time span. However he could not give me any details about my fathers military service life as they went in different directions after my father went into the army.