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Personal info

Full name
KIBBEE, Forrest Hamilton
Date of birth
17 April 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Hometown
Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire

Military service

Service number
6143557
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
18th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
31 January 1945
Place of death
Hünningen, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Forrest F. Kibbee (father)
Grace R. (Rand) Kibbee (mother)
Mary M. (George) Kibbee (wife)
Infant Kibbee (son)
Sandra Kibbee (daughter)
Edward H. Kibbee (son)

More information

S/Sgt Forrest H. Kibbee joined the Regular Army on 5 October 1939.

He was a motion picture projectionist before he joined the army.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Various Family Trees, www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar, New Hampshire Birth Records

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Riley McGrath via Yearbook Concord NH