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MC GEE, Leonard Joseph - Date of
birth
1 May 1917 -
Age
27 - Place of
birth
Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania -
Hometown
Bristol Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
O-511146 -
Rank
Captain -
Function
Surgeon -
Unit
194th Glider Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division,
Medical Detachment
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Awards
Purple Heart
Death
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Status
Killed in Action - Date of
death
24 March 1945 - Place of
death
East of the Diersfordter Wald and southeast of Hamminkeln, Germany
North of Wesel, Germany
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
| Plot | Row | Grave |
|---|---|---|
| L | 20 | 18 |
Immediate family
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Members
Bernard B. Mc Gee (father)
Ellen (Gallagher) Mc Gee (mother)
Mary Mc Gee (sister)
Ellen Mc Gee (sister)
Rita Mc Gee (sister)
Mabel A. (Doyle) Mc Gee (wife)
Terry Mc Gee (son)
Biography
www.ouralliedheroes.nlMore information
After the LaSalle College, where Leonard Mc Gee studied, and passed cum-laude, he was admitted to the Thomas Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He became a doctor and a surgeon when he was only 25 or 26 years. In the nine months he worked at the Nazareth Hospital, before the war interrupted, he met Mabel Agnes Doyle, operation nurse from Nova Scotia, Canada. They married and got a son, Terry.After paratrooper training, he arrived in England on 28 august 1944.
Although, as a surgeon, he didn’t took part in the fight, he still managed to capture two German soldiers.
Capt.McGee was killed when the glider he was in, crashed.
Source of information: Terry Hirsch, www.ouralliedheroes.nl, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930 Census
Photo source: Tom Verheijden, www.ouralliedheroes.nl, Northeast Catholic High School