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Personal info

Full name
RENO, Paul Dale
Date of birth
23 October 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
unknown
Hometown
Civil Bend, Daviess County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37515411
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
3rd Battalion,
325th Glider Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 December 1944
Place of death
Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
A 15 13

Immediate family

Members
Christopher C. Reno (father)
Irma (Haver) Reno (mother)
Ross Reno (brother)
Lenn Reno (brother)
Donna J. Reno (sister)
L. Dean Reno (brother)

More information

Pfc Paul D. "Dale" Reno entered the service March 19, 1944 and went overseas in May 1944. He was a member of the 1942 graduating class of the Civil Bend High School. During his high school work he was active and a leader of the musical activities of the school. He was noted for his beautiful bass voice. He was killed during the Battle of the Bulge.


"Eight thousand crosses row on row,
Eight thousand tiny drifts of snow.
Eight thousand memories multiplied
By all that knew the brave who died."


(from a poem L. Dean Reno wrote to commemorate the Henri-Chapelle Cemetery in memory of his brother Dale who is buried there. The whole poem is published in the book "A Missouri Boy Growing Up in the County".)

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Kyle Reno, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Elizabeth Lou Alexander Reno, www.findagrave.com - Kathy, http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/325/325_honor_pr.html, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Kyle Reno (nephew)