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Personal info

Full name
JORDAN, Walter R
Date of birth
18 December 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Summit County, Ohio
Hometown
Akron, Summit County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35587185
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
354th Infantry Regiment,
89th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 April 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Schönfels-Hüttelsgrün-Ebersbrun-Wilkau, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
J 18 8

Immediate family

Members
William J. Jordan (father)
Mary E. (Heinrich) Jordan (mother)
Pauline M. Jordan (sister)
Albert J. Jordan (brother)
Lucille J. Jordan (sister)

More information

St/Sgt Walter R. Jordan attended Kenmore High School where he was an all-round athlete and boxing champion. He was employed at the All States Freight Co.

He enlisted in Akron, Ohio on 22 October 1942.

"We have just taken a town," he once wrote. "We had 900 yards of open field to cross. I never in my life saw so much nerve. We fired from the hip. We couldn't see anyone, but the lead was sure coming our way. Many boys got hit. I stopped and gave first aid to a boy who got it in the neck."

Source of information: Leo Minne, Ralph Peeters, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com 1930-1940 Census / Ohio Birth Index / Family Trees, www.89infdivww2.org/combat/index.htm, www.newspapers.com - The Akron Beacon Journal

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.newspapers.com - The Akron Beacon Journal