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Personal info

Full name
MARINGER, George C
Date of birth
30 September 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
Hometown
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35683706
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
629th Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Strass, Hürtgen Forest, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
George Maringer (father)
Clara (Gellenbeck) Maringer (mother)
Ferdinand Wagner (half-brother)
Alvera C. Wagner (half-sister)
Delores Wagner (half-sister)
Melvin F. Maringer (brother)

More information

Pfc George C Maringer attended high school for 2 years and was a typesetter with the Wolf Publishing Company in Norwood.

He enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio on 15 January 1943 and was sent overseas in December 1943.

His mother was first married to John Wagner.

At the time of his death, his brother Melvin served at Keesler Field, Biloxi, Mississippi.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 census / Ohio Birth index 1930 Census, www.newspapers.com, www.tankdestroyer.net

Photo source: www.wwiimemorial.com - Tom, Mark and Ted Maringer (nephews), Peter Schouteten