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Personal info

Full name
RUSH, Orville Albert
Date of birth
12 August 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Harrisburg, Lincoln County, South Dakota
Hometown
Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota

Military service

Service number
37588362
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
175th Infantry Regiment,
29th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 November 1944
Place of death
Bourheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
A 13 9

Immediate family

Members
Clyde C. Rush (father)
Anna Elizabeth Rush (mother)
Verna Ruth (Staudenraus) Rush (wife)
Robert J. Rush (son)

Biography

http://mva.sd.gov

More information

Private Orville Rush graduated from Harrisburg High School.

He enlisted on 28 February 1944 at Fort Snelling, Minnesota and was sent overseas in August 1944.

He joined his unit from a replacement depot on 16 October 1944.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, WWII Enlistment Record,
www.ancestry.com, 1940 Census, Westford-Staudenraus Family Tree, www.americandday.org,
www.marylandmilitaryhistory.org/29div/reports, www.newspapers.com - Argus-Leader

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.newspapers.com - Argus-Leader