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Personal info

Full name
SPENCER, Earl J
Date of birth
22 July 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
Hometown
Hennepin County, Minnesota

Military service

Service number
37548503
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
60th Infantry Regiment,
9th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 April 1945
Place of death
Southern sector of the Ruhr pocket, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
I 21 9

Immediate family

Members
James Spencer (father)
Myrtle M. (Luley) Spencer (mother)
Donald M. Spencer (brother)
Edna M. Spencer (sister)
Richard D. Spencer (brother)
William J. Spencer (brother)
Robert J. Spencer (brother)
Martha A. Spencer (sister)
Patricia L. Spencer (sister)
Frederick W. Spencer (brother)
Daniel Spencer (brother)
Theodore F. Spencer (brother)

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Kirk Spencer Family Tree - www.9thinfantrydivision.net, WWII Draft Card, 1930 US Census

Photo source: Robyn Perrotti, www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Ralph Peeters