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Personal info

Full name
MUELLER, David Starr
Date of birth
8 May 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Hometown
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
36830389
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
M Company,
3rd Battalion,
422nd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 December 1944
Place of death
Valender, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 7 37

Immediate family

Members
Rudd O. Mueller (father)
Helen Mueller (mother)

More information

According to a grave report of the 648 Feldgendarmerie Trupp of the 3rd Fallschirmjäger Division, Pfc Mueller was taken prisoner and killed by an American shell hit the same day in Valender. He was initially buried at a provisional army cemetery next to the church of Valender.
Later he was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery at Foy, Belgium.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Carla Mans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – World War II Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1940 Census, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18238601 - page 52

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Des Philippet, U.S. School Yearbooks - Whitefish Bay High School 1943