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Personal info

Full name
COLLINS, Joseph F
Date of birth
30 March 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Ohio
Hometown
Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35519065
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
27th Armored Infantry Battalion,
9th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 December 1944
Place of death
Behind Hotel du Moulin
Ligneuville, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
D 15 33

Immediate family

Members
William F. Collins (father)
Mary G. (Murray) Collins (mother)
Mercedes Collins (sister)
Margaret Collins (sister)

More information

S/Sgt Joseph Collins enlisted on 27 October 1942 at Cleveland, Ohio.

Together with seven of his comrades, he was executed by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper of the 1st SS Panzer Division, Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. They were all shot in the head. A monument, right next to the hotel, commemorates them.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.strijdbewijs.nl, www.ancestry.com - United States Social Security Death Index Cleveland Necrology File / 1940 census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.strijdbewijs.nl