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Personal info

Full name
LEGATE, Willard Eugene
Date of birth
14 February 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Beatrice, Gage County, Nebraska
Hometown
Gage County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
20721902
Rank
Private
Function
Radio Operator
Unit
Canon Company,
330th Infantry Regiment,
83rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
14 December 1944
Place of death
Strass, Hürtgen Forest, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
E 4 58

Immediate family

Members
Edmund W. Legate (father)
Verlinda Legate (mother)
Ruth Legate (sister)
Ted Legate (brother)
Virginia (Wood) Legate (wife)

More information

Willard E. Legate graduated from Beatrice High School in 1933 and was employed at the Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company.

He joined Nebraska National Guard on 23 December 1940 and was sent overseas on 4 March 1944.

The morning report of 21 October 1944 lists him reduced in rank from Sergeant to Private.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census, http://83rdinfdivdocs.org - After Action Report, www.findagrave.com - Beatrice Daily Sun, Beatrice, Nebraska

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.newspaperarchive.com - Beatrice Daily Sun