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Personal info

Full name
WILLIAMS, Issac E
Date of birth
3 October 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Eddyville, Pope County, Illinois
Hometown
Dade County, Florida

Military service

Service number
34058770
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
771st Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 April 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
J 6 12

Immediate family

Members
Norman Williams (father)
Charity (Stone) Williams (mother)
S. T. Williams (brother)

More information

Sgt Issac E. Williams enlisted at Camp Blanding, Florida on 8 November 1941.

He was wounded in action on 19 November 1944 in Belgium, for which he was awarded the Purple Heart Medal a first time. After recovering he returned to his unit.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Joeff & Shawn Williams, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, http://www.tankdestroyer.net

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.newspaperarchives.com - The Daily Register, 5 June 1945