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Personal info

Full name
PENNEY, Michael Berhard
Date of birth
11 May 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Hometown
Queens, Queens County, New York

Military service

Service number
32616002
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
27th Armored Infantry Battalion,
9th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 December 1944
Place of death
Behind Hotel du Moulin
Ligneuville, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
C 11 52

Immediate family

Members
Martin H. Penney (father)
Edith C. Penney (mother)
Mary L. Penney (sister)

More information

Pfc Michael B. Penney was a construction worker.

He enlisted in New York City, New York on 2 November 1942.

Together with seven of his comrades, he was executed by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper of the 1st SS Panzer Division, Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. They were all shot in the head. A monument, right next to the hotel, commemorates them.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, Mary T. Bukhari (niece), www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Des Philippet, Mary T. Bukhari