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Personal info

Full name
DEAL, Kenneth A
Date of birth
10 July 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Marengo, Crawford County, Indiana
Hometown
St. Louis, Missouri

Military service

Service number
6937201
Rank
Technician Fourth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
747th Tank Battalion,
29th Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 November 1944
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
O 11 10

Immediate family

Members
Frank L. Bittner (adoptive father)
Golden M. Bittner (adoptive mother)
Paul Deal (brother)

More information

Kenneth Deal attended Normandy High School in St. Louis, Missouri.

He had been adopted by Frank and Golden Bittner. Sources are not in agreement when it comes to his year of birth, with one suggesting it may have been 1921.

T/4 Kenneth A. Deal was awarded the Silver Star Medal for salvaging a tank in France under enemy fire.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, John Wagemans, Astrid van Erp, St Louis Genealogical Society - especially Lisa Faszl-Riley and Andrew Theising, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Missouri, U.S. Pre-World War II Adjutant General Enlistment Contracts, 1900-1941, www.newspapers.com - St. Louis Globe-Democrat of 27 August 1944

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, St. Louis Post Dispatch