Robert Dugger

ASN: 34193267

Robert Allen Dugger registered for the draft on October 16, 1940. Born July 4, 1918 he was from Pulaski, Tennessee. Married to Dorothy Payge Dugger, his place of employment was listed as M Cohen & Sons, located in Pulaski, TN. This twenty-two-year-old was 5-10, 150 pounds with a dark complexion, brown eyes and brown hair.

Enlisted in the Army on March 17, 1942, Private Dugger received his training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and later assigned to A-Battery, 319th Field Artillery Group, 82nd Airborne Division.

Along with fellow Glidermen, Private Dugger traveled to north Africa in May, 1943.

Later promoted in rank to PFC, he fought in six (6) battles and campaigns; Sicily, Naples-Foggia, Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes and Central Europe.

Company Morning Reports were produced every morning by the individual Army units to record personnel matters. The following events were reported: 

August 20, 1943, PVC Dugger was reduced to the grade of private, effective August 16, 1943.  Along with 13 other enlisted men PVT Dugger was given furlough on July 18, 1944, to Birmingham, England returning to duty on July 23, 1944 at 2200 hours.  (see below)

Company Morning Reports

Photo courtesy of Joseph Covais, author of BATTERY

The Adjusted Service Rating Score (ASR) was a system the U.S. Army used at the end of the war to determine when soldiers were eligible for discharge. PFC Dugger was one of many “High Point” soldiers with a score over 85 points and returned to civilian life on September 20, 1945. 

PFC Robert Allen Dugger was awarded 6 Bronze Battle Stars, Bronze Arrowhead, Good Conduct Medal, the Belgian Fourragere, Presidential Unit Citation Badge with Oak Leaf Cluster, Victory Ribbon, and the European-African-Middle Eastern Theatre Ribbon. 

Robert Allen Dugger, 47, died May 13, 1966. God Bless this hero.