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Personal info

Full name
POWELL, David Talcott
Date of birth
7 September 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey
Hometown
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
11121871
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
334th Infantry Regiment,
84th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 November 1944
Place of death
Beeck, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
B 21 11

Immediate family

Members
Talcott W. Powell (father)
Isabelle A. (Loney) Powell (mother)
Ralph Goldsmith (stepfather)
Elizabeth Goldsmith (half-sister)
Mary Goldsmith (half-sister)

More information

Pfc David T. Powell graduated from Cheltenham High School and attended Harvard University.

He enlisted in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 25 November 1942. He was selelcted for the A.S.T.P. program for which he was sent to the Drexel Institute of Technology. When the program was disbanded, he was transferred to the Infantry. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com – U.S. School Yearbook /U.S., Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census, http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/89/

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com – U.S. School Yearbook / Cheltenham High School 1942