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Personal info

Full name
KANE, William Patrick
Date of birth
27 February 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Hampden County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
O1061150
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
D Battery,
155th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Battalion,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
8 January 1945
Place of death
Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
G 1 12

Immediate family

Members
Patrick J. Kane (father)
Anna S. Kane (mother)
Bernard J. Kane (brother)
Mildred A. Kane (sister)
James J. Kane (brother)
Paul J. Kane (brother)
Claire P. (Clancy) Kane (wife)

More information

2nd Lt William P. Kane enlisted in Springfield, Massachusetts on 16 September 1942.
He was initially buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Foy, Belgium.

Lt William P. Kane is remembered at Calvary Cemetery in Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Carla Mans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/155/155_honor.html, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1940 Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / JR Blain, Etienne Venken