John P. Sersha

Following World War II, the remains of Private Sersha were recovered from an isolated burial site in the Kiekberg Woods in Germany. As a part of Operation Market Garden, PVT Sersha and other American and British forces conducted airborne landings in the Netherlands in an effort to circumvent the German defenses blocking Allied armies along the western border of Germany. PVT Sersha was one of three "Bazooka men" that were sent out with one of the platoons of the company on September 27, 1944. None of the men returned from battle. In 1948, the American Graves Registration Command recovered two sets of remains from an unmarked grave in the Kiekberg Wood. One of the casualties was among those War Dead could not be identified at that time. PVT Sersha was interred as Unknown-X7429 at the Ardennes American Cemetery in Plot C Row 12 Grave 46. In 2015, Unknown X-7429 was disinterred from the burial site at Ardennes American Cemetery. Using modern day forensic science, the remains of PVT Sersha were identified by DPAA in 2016. PVT Sersha's name is permanently inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial at Margraten, Holland.