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Personal info

Full name
HOUTZ, Donald Roy
Date of birth
6 June 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33437178
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
334th Infantry Regiment,
84th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 December 1944
Place of death
Leiffarth, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
K 18 16

Immediate family

Members
Francis R. Houtz (father)
Helen M. (Coates) Houtz (mother)
Howard D. Houtz (brother)

More information

Pfc Donald R. Houtz enlisted in Erie, Pennsylvania on 24 April 1943. He attended Sharon High School.

His father Francis Roy Houtz was a WWI veteran serving in France in de Artois sector.

Source of information: André Koch, Astrid van Erp, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / Veteran Compensation Application File, http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/89/

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.ancestry.com - Sharon High School Yearbook 1942