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Personal info

Full name
MANESS, Ernest Melvin
Date of birth
14 October 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Moore County, North Carolina
Hometown
Sheffields, Moore County, North Carolina

Military service

Service number
34258703
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
36th Armored Infantry Regiment,
3rd Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
30 March 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Etteln-Brilon, south of Paderborn, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
J 17 5

Immediate family

Members
Lemuel B. Maness (father)
J. Florence Maness (mother)
Blanche I. Maness (sister)
V. Alma Maness (sister)
Howard B. Maness (brother)
J. Richard Maness (brother)

More information

Pfc Ernest M. Maness worked in a kitchen.

He enlisted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on 8 April 1942.

Pfc Maness wrote the following on the bakc of this picture before sending it home: "This is a sign my outfit put up on the first day we enter Cologne. And we were the first unit there and on to the Rhine. On March 4 & 5. We can do it if we haft (have) to."

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / WWII Draft Cards, http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org - After Action Report 36th Armored Infantry Regiment 

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Kim Williams