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Personal info

Full name
WAMBAUGH, Stephen Grant
Date of birth
3 August 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Alliance, Box Butte County, Nebraska
Hometown
Logan County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
37087646
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
18th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized)
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 February 1945
Place of death
Stalag 11B (Work Camps)
Fallingbostel Prussia 53-09, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Ralph C. Wambaugh (father)
Nettie T. Wambaugh (mother)
Leta F. Wambaugh (sister)

More information

Stephen G. Wambaugh was graduated from the Nebraska School of Agriculture at Curtis and J. Hoover Auctioneering and Radiocasting School of Sterling, Colorado.

Stephen Wambaugh was captured on 17 December 1944 and died as Prisoner of War. He was shot by an airplane in a German camp.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, The Nebraska State Journal 3 May 1945

Photo source: Astrid van Erp