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Personal info

Full name
SNOW, Johnny L
Date of birth
6 June 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Brown County, Texas
Hometown
Hidalgo County, Texas

Military service

Service number
38091329
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 February 1945
Place of death
Bergstein, Hürtgen Forest, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
E 12 63

Immediate family

Members
William M. Snow (father)
Ella May G. (Hancock) Snow (mother)
R.A. Snow (twin brother)
Amy T. Snow (sister)
Wanda F. Snow (sister)
Ernestine Snow (sister)
Mayme H. Snow (sister)
Esther M. (Colvin) Snow (wife)
Imogene A. (Rider) Snow (wife)
Jimmie B. Snow (son)
Ella M. Snow (daughter)

More information

S/Sgt Johnny L. Snow was first married to Esther Colvin in 1938 and divorced her. He remarried with Imogene Rider and after divorcing her, he remarried with his first wife in 1942.

Both his twin brother and his son died in infancy.

He enlisted in Sam Houston, Texas on 20 February 1942.

When the 2nd Battalion arrived at Bergstein after a long foot march from Schmidt, S/Sgt Snow was killed when an artillery shell landed alongside the marching men.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.ww2-airborne.us, http://aad.archives.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, www.newspapers.com - The Monitor, "Blocking Kampfgruppe Peiper" by Frank van Lunteren

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Eva McGuffie (niece) - courtesy of Kathy McDermott