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Personal info

Full name
DECKER, Harold Kenneth
Date of birth
19 October 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Tyrone, Blair County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Centre County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33847681
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
33rd Armored Regiment,
3rd Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 December 1944
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
E 12 30

Immediate family

Members
Grant Corbin (stepfather)
Dorsey F. Decker (brother)
Florence M. (Hockenberry) Decker (wife)
Harold K. Decker (son)
Homer Decker (son)
Dorsey Decker (son)

More information

Pvt Harold K. Decker enlisted on 23 March 1944 and was sent overseas in September 1944.

His younger brother, Sgt Dorsey F. Decker, was killed in a plane crash at Fort Worth, Texas on 13 January 1944.

Source of information: www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - David Bell Family Tree, The Gettysburg Times 17-19 January 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, The Gettysburg Times - 19 January 1945