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Personal info

Full name
REEP, Luther Blair
Date of birth
12 June 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
North Carolina
Hometown
Vale, Lincoln County, North Carolina

Military service

Service number
34863707
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
16th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 March 1945
Place of death
Uckerath, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
D 5 35

Immediate family

Members
Luther M. Reep (father)
Hattie L. (Friday) Reep (mother)
Brady L. Reep (brother)
Russell R. Reep (brother)
Essie M. Reep (sister)
Ida M. Reep (sister)
Lois E. Reep (sister)
Ethel C. Reep (sister)
Margaret F. Reep (sister)
John B. Reep (brother)
Betty S. Reep (sister)

More information

Pvt Luther B. Reep attended Union High School and worked on a farm.

He enlisted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on 19 May 1944 and was sent overseas in November 1944.

He is remembered at the Bethphage Lutheran Church Cemetery in Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina.

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

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Richard Jordan, newspaper article