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Personal info

Full name
SAPP, Edward C
Date of birth
23 August 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Live Oak, Suwannee County, Florida
Hometown
Palm Harbor, Pinellas County, Florida

Military service

Service number
34536094
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
612th Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 December 1944
Place of death
Honsfeld, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
C 15 5

Immediate family

Members
John J. Sapp (father)
Edith I. (Chauncey) Sapp (mother)
Ethel B. Sapp (sister)
Charles J. Sapp (brother)
Mary E. Sapp (sister)
Annibel Sapp (sister)
Shirley Sapp (sister)

More information

T/5 Edward C. Sapp enlisted at Camp Blanding, Florida on 17 December 1942.
He was a motor vehicle repairman before he enlisted.

On 17 December 1944, 19 unarmed members of the 612th Tank Destroyer of B and Rcn Company were massacred in Honsfeld by SS Troops under the command of Obersturmbannführer Joachim Peiper.

Source of information: Leo Minne, Raf Dyckmans, Astrid van Erp, www.abmc.gov, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, http://www.tankdestroyer.net/images/stories/ArticlePDFs/612th_TD_Dec_1-31_44_AAR.pdf, www.fold3.com, www.newspapers.com

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet