Private Dale Dewey Brower (20837905) was born on June 3, 1898 in Clinton Township, Sac County, Iowa.

He had three years of High School, was single, working on his father’s farm, and had been in the Colorado National Guard for 15 years when he was called up  into the U.S. Army on September 16, 1940. He was assigned to Company D, 157th Infantry Regiment (Rifle), 45th Infantry Division (“Thunderbirds”), 7th Army and was sent overseas to Algeria.

The 157th Regiment had been tagged as the main effort to assault the beachhead on Sicily under the cover of naval and artillery fire, then push inland to a place called San Croce Camerina. Code-named “Operation Husky,” this would be the very first American amphibious assault onto a beachhead in World War II, as well as the first interaction with the enemy for these Colorado Soldiers.

On July 10, 1943, PVT Brower was killed in action near Santa Croce Camerina, south Sicily, located 2.5 miles north-northeast of the landing beach. It is unknown exactly where or under what circumstances PVT Brower was killed. It could have been during the treacherous landing, during the action moving inland, or during the assault on Santa Croce Camerina. He was 45 years old.

PVT Brower is buried in the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, Plot C, Row 3, Grave 21, located at the north edge of the town of Nettuno, Italy.

See the link to the full Fold3.com story about Brower at the bottom of the following findagrave page.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56306919/dale-dewey-brower