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Personal info

Full name
SHIPE, Cletis Paul
Date of birth
9 February 1920
Age
26
Place of birth
West Virginia
Hometown
Wahiawa, Honolulu, Hawaii

Military service

Service number
06944175
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
60th Infantry Regiment,
9th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
1 March 1946
Place of death
In the vicinity of Drzewica, Poland

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Joseph W. Shipe (father)
Lula D. (Cullers) Shipe (mother)
Ressie M. Shipe (sister)
Lottie V. Shipe (sister)
Roxy D. Shipe (sister)
Etta V. Shipe (sister)
Lona M. Shipe (sister)
Woodrow W. Shipe (brother)
Della V. Shipe (sister)
Anna B. Shipe (sister)
Phylis (Taylor) Shipe (wife)
Veral Shipe (daughter)

More information

S/Sgt Shipe joined the Regular Army in Washington D.C. on 28 July 1941.

Information reveals that the German guards forced the American and Russian prisoners of war to leave Stalag III-C near the village of Drzewica, Poland on 31 January 1945. They had marched only a short distance when they were caught between Russian and German cross fire and were killed by gunfire from Russian tanks.

He was officially declared dead one day and one year after the assumed date of his death.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Family Tree / Census / World War II Young American Patriots, West Virginia Memory Project, http://www.7tharmddiv.org - IDPF Aloysious Mc Lean

Photo source: Danny van der Groen, www.ancestry.com - World War II Young American Patriots