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Personal info

Full name
STURM, Jack "Red"
Date of birth
18 March 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Hungary
Hometown
Manhattan, New York County, New York

Military service

Service number
32621840
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
415th Infantry Regiment,
104th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 February 1945
Place of death
Crossing the Roer River at Düren, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
E 5 17

Immediate family

Members
Marie E. (Rhine) Sturm (wife)
Dorothea Sturm (daughter)
John Sturm (son)

More information

Pvt Jack Sturm worked at a chemical plant before he enlisted in New York City, New York on 7 November 1942.

His squad was crossing the Roer River in Germany under heavy fire from the enemy, when the boat was hit by a mortar shell, capsizing it and dumping the men into the water. Pvt Sturm and most of the others had a life vest on, but he willingly gave his to another soldier that couldn't swim, thinking he would be able to make it to the other side, but he didn't.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com Jack Sturm Personal Page, www.ancestry.com Social Security Death Index / 1940 Census, U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil

Photo source: Nora Kelting, www.fold3.com Jack Sturm Personal Page, www.findagrave.com, Fred