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Personal info

Full name
SMILEY, Richard Cummings
Date of birth
21 April 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Bozeman, Gallatin County, Montana
Hometown
Missoula County, Montana

Military service

Service number
39617821
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
334th Infantry Regiment,
84th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
28 February 1945
Place of death
Schwalmtal-Boisheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 14 14

Immediate family

Members
Mears C. Smiley (father)
Dorothea B. (Berrstecher) Smiley (mother)
Dorothea A. Smiley (sister)

More information

S/Sgt Richard C. Smiley attended Montana State College.

He enlisted at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, California on 11 August 1943.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census, http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/89/

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks 1880-2012 Montana State College 1942