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Personal info

Full name
OXFORD, Gene Leroy
Date of birth
14 April 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Taft, Kern County, California
Hometown
Taft, Kern County, California

Military service

Service number
19182902
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
395th Infantry Regiment,
99th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 December 1944
Place of death
Near Höfen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
B 10 28

Immediate family

Members
Orville O. Oxford (father)
Opal M. (Vorhees) Oxford (mother)

More information

Pfc Gene L. Oxford graduated from Taft Union High School 1941, where he played football and attended Barbara State College. He was employed at the Standard Oil Company before he enlisted on 20 March 1942..

He was killed by a German land mine explosion while he was on a combat patrol near Höfen, Germany.

Source of information: Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Various Family Trees / Registration Card, www.newspapers.com - The Bakersfield Californian / The Fresno Bee The Republican, George W. Neill - Infantry Soldier Holding the Lines at the Battle of the Bulge

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, George W. Neill - Infantry Soldier Holding the Lines at the Battle of the Bulge