Lt. Andrew Edward Tuck III, US Army
80 Chatsworth Avenue, Larchmont

Age: 22
Graduated from LaSalle Military Academy, Oakdale, L.I.
Paratrooper, 506th Parachute Infantry, 101st Airborne
Lt. Tuck was one of the youngest paratroop officers in the 101st Airborne and participated in parachute jumps in Normandy, Holland and Belgium. He was killed in a vehicle accident in Austria on July 7, 1945 (after V-E Day was declared).

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Letters Home of Andrew E. Tuck 

Stephen Colbert's Larchmont Roots by Lynne Crowley, Archivist
 

Stephen Colbert on his uncle 1st Lt. Andrew Edward Tuck III and D-Day (June 6, 2014)
View the CNN interview with Stephen Colbert from June 6, 2014)