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Personal info

Full name
EGAN, John Francis Jr
Date of birth
1922
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut
Hometown
Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Military service

Service number
12021398
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
26th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Münsterbusch, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
D 39 6

Immediate family

Members
John F. Egan (father)
Josephine H. (Iffland) Egan (mother)
Louise Egan (sister)
Doris Egan (sister)
Jean Egan (sister)

More information

S/Sgt John F. Egan, Jr attended Stamford High School. He was employed at the J.A.B. Smith boatyard. He joined the Regular Army in New York City, New York on 29 November 1940.
He took part in the campaigns of Africa, Sicily, Italy, Normandy and Germany, travelling over the same territory that his father traveled during World War I.
S/Sgt Egan was wounded in action on 19 September 1944 in the vicinity of Bussbach, Germany and taken prisoner. He died in a German field hospital a day later.

A fellow soldier stated that the last time he saw S/Sgt Egan, he was driving a jeep, taking three other soldiers, with food rations to the front lines. German soldiers ambushed the jeep and took them away including the jeep.

Source of information: André Koch, Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census, www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/ww2list.html, Daily Advocate - 10 October 1944

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Daily Advocate - 10 October 1944