page_title: Harry A. "Paddy" Flint
section_title: Death and burial
hierarchical_section_title: Harry A. "Paddy" Flint / World War II / Death and burial
caption_attribution_description: English: Grave of Harry A. "Paddy" Flint at Arlington National Cemetery
context_page_description: Colonel Harry Albert "Paddy" Flint was an officer of the United States Army during World War II. Although at 56 years of age he was considerably older than was generally acceptable for field-grade front-line infantry officers, he is most known for leading the 39th Infantry Regiment from its service in Sicily until he was mortally wounded six weeks after D-Day.
context_section_description: Flint was hit by a sniper's bullet as led the patrol into the shelter of a farmhouse during the fighting on the Saint-Lô-Périers road.  Medical aid men and stretcher bearers evacuated him to a treatment area behind the lines, where Flint died the following day.  He was buried at United States Military Cemetery No. 2 in Ste-Mere-Eglise, France.  In 1948, Flint was reinterred at Section 2, Site 310 of Arlington National Cemetery.  For the action in which he was killed, Flint received a second award of the Distinguished Service Cross.
caption: Grave at Arlington National Cemetery
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