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Personal info

Full name
EARLE, Fred Raymond
Date of birth
15 September 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona

Military service

Service number
O-1184488
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
903rd Field Artillery Battalion,
78th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
unknown
Date of death
7 April 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
A 9 27

Immediate family

Members
Raymond Earle (father)
Herman M. Garber (stepfather)
Helen L. Garber (mother)
Donald R. Garber (stepbrother)
Mary M. (Jackson) Earle (wife)

More information

After his mother married Herman M. Garber in 1927, throughout the rest of his childhood, Fred Earle was known as Raymond E. Garber. He attended Prescott High School and later Oregon State College in Corvallis, where he completed three years.

2nd Lt Fred R. Earle volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in Phoenix, Arizona on 15 October 1942. Later he was transferred to the infantry.

He was married to Mary Marie Jackson on 25 September 1944.

Source of information: André Koch, Peter Schouteten, Catherine H. Ellis, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone Inscription and Interment Record ‏

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Prescott High School yearbook 1938, Oregon State University Gold Star Project