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Personal info

Full name
PACKWOOD, Albert Clark Jr
Date of birth
24 February 1920
Age
25
Place of birth
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Hometown
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas

Military service

Service number
O1286342
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Platoon Commander
Unit
H Company,
2nd Battalion,
18th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 March 1945
Place of death
Aeqidienberg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
C 4 21

Immediate family

Members
Albert C. Packwood Sr. (father)
Mary L. (Briggs) Packwood (mother)
Cora M. Packwood (sister)
George C. Packwood (brother)
Bonnie M. Packwoord (sister)
Claris A. Packwood (sister)
Mary L. Packwood (sister)
Janis H. Packwood (wife)
Celeste Packwood (daughter)

More information

1st Lt Albert C. Packwood Jr. graduated from Dallas Technical High School in 1938 and was working as a stenographer when he enlisted in Dallas, Texas on 24 September 1941.

He enlisted in Dallas, Texas on 24 September 1941 and completed Officer's Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia where he was commissioned on 30 June 1942. He was went overseas in March 1944 and landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day.

He was awarded the Silver Star Medal for refusing to surrender his platoon when they were surrounded.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - various family trees / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet