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Personal info

Full name
CAIN, Loren
Date of birth
13 December 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Iowa
Hometown
Buena Vista County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
37694186
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
424th Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 December 1944
Place of death
St. Vith, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
F 14 61

Immediate family

Members
Roe H. Cain (father)
Mina B. Cain (mother)
Delores E. Cain (sister)

More information

Cain graduated from Rembrandt High School where he was on the basketball team and served as the Senior Class Secretary. He was inducted into the service in April 1944 and going overseas in October 1944.

Pfc Loren Cain first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Foy, Belgium Block B, Row 10, Grave 233.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil , www.findagrave.com, LCM, http://iagenweb.org/ ,The Sioux City Journal

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, LCM, http://www.rembrandtschool.com/1943.htm