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Personal info

Full name
O'TOOLE, Francis J
Date of birth
1 June 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Darien, Fairfield County, Connecticut
Hometown
Fairfield County, Connecticut

Military service

Service number
O-535618
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Executive Officer
Unit
A Battery,
589th Field Artillery Battalion,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 December 1944
Place of death
Limburg an der Lahn, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
K 3 9

Immediate family

Members
Thomas E. O'Toole (father)
Mary A. (Roddy) O'Toole (mother)
Catherine M. O'Toole (sister)
Margaret V. O'Toole (sister)
Thomas E. O'Toole (brother)
John M. O'Toole (brother)
James O'Toole (brother)
Vincent O'Toole (brother)
Mary A. O'Toole (wife)

More information

2nd Lt Francis J. O'Toole graduated from Darien High School and Yale University. He received his commission following his graduation from Yale in June 1943. He was sent overseas in November 1944.

He had three brothers in the service: Pfc Thomas E. O'Toole, Jr., also serving on the western front; Cpl James O'Toole, U.S. Army Air Forces in, Nashville, Tennessee and Lt Vincent O'Toole, a bomber pilot.

He was killed during an Allied bombing raid during a forced march after the ecaucation of the POW camp where he was held.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com 1930/1940 Census/US The Norwalk Hour, 20 January 1945 / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, www.indianamilitary.org, http://mssa.library.yale.edu - Yale University - Obituaries 1945-1946

Photo source: www.indianamilitary.org, Peter Schouteten