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Personal info

Full name
LEVY, Samuel
Date of birth
18 September 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
Rhode Island
Hometown
Bound Brook, Somerset County, New Jersey
Religion
Jewish

Military service

Service number
42018505
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
26th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 February 1945
Place of death
Hollerath, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
F 3 4

Immediate family

Members
Wolf Levy (father)
Sophie Levy (mother)
Louis Levy (brother)
Catherine Levy (sister)
Marion (Wahl) Levy (wife)
Jill Levy (daughter)

More information

Pvt Samuel Levy enlisted on 17 November 1943, and trained at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, and was stationed at Camp Kilmer. He was sent overseas in April 1944.

He was killed by enemy machine gun fire.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Birth Index / 1930 Census, www.newspapers.com - The Courier-News

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet