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Personal info

Full name
SIMON, John Marion III
Date of birth
14 August 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Baltimore, Maryland
Hometown
Baltimore, Maryland

Military service

Service number
20344525
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
327th Glider Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 October 1944
Place of death
The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 1 10

Immediate family

Members
John M. Simon Sr. (father)
Wanda M. (Brzozowski) Simon (mother)
Bernard V. Simon (brother)
Victoria M. Simon (sister)
Wanda M. Simon (sister)
Gerard Simon (brother)
Herbert Simon (brother)
Emily M. Simon (sister)

More information

Pfc John M. Simon Jr. was a flower grower when he joined the National Guard in Baltimore, Maryland on 3 February 1941.

He travelled extensively with the Army Show and was assigned as an instructor before joining a glider unit. He was sent overseas in September 1943 and was reported wounded in action in June 1944 but returned to his unit. For this wound he was awarded the Purple Heart Medal for the first time.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, http://www.ww2-airborne.us, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census, The Baltimore Sun - 17 January 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / Jennifer Gmurek and John Gmurek