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Personal info

Full name
CLIPPINGER, Donald Knisely
Date of birth
27 May 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Ohio
Hometown
Licking County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35635079
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
406th Infantry Regiment,
102nd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 November 1944
Place of death
Near Gereonsweiler, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 9 9

Immediate family

Members
John Clippinger (father)
Lillian M. (Knisely) Clippinger (mother)
Lancelot P. Clippinger (brother)
Isabel L. Clippinger (sister)
Eugene Clippinger (brother)
Francis I. Clippinger (brother)
Helen L. Clippinger (sister)
Doris L. Clippinger (sister)
Phyllis G. Clippinger (sister)
Kenneth Clippinger (brother)
Herbert Clippinger (brother)
Hugh Clippinger (brother)

More information

Pfc Donald K. Clippinger graduated from Utica High School.

He enlisted in April, 1942, trained in Jackson, Mississippi, at Camp Swift in Texas, with the ASTP at Tiffin and had been overseas for two months.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census / Ohio Birth Index / Family Tree, www.newspapers.com - The Newark Advocate

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Doug Stout, Licking County Library "In the Company of Heroes"