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Personal info

Full name
PROPER, Dale Dewitt
Date of birth
5 July 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio
Hometown
Summit County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35925883
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
422nd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
28 March 1945
Place of death
Meinringen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
B 33 36

Immediate family

Members
Albert D. Proper (father)
Anna (Becker) Proper (mother)
Florence M. Proper (sister)
Ruth A. Proper (sister)
Charles P. Proper (brother)
Helen K. (Worthington) Proper (wife)
Jerry Proper (son)
Suzanne Proper (daughter)

More information

Pfc Dale D. Proper graduated from Wadsworth High School. He was employed as a salesman with the Ohio Match Co.

He enlisted in Cleveland, Ohio on 10 January 1944 and was sent overseas in September 1944.

He was taken prisoner on 16 December 1944 and was held captive in Stalag IV-B

Pfc Proper's parents and wife received several cards from him in March and April 1945, after he had been takn prisoer. No further word came until the war department sent a message that he died in a hospital in Meinringen, Germany.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees / Headstone and Interment Record, www.newspapers.com - The Akron Beacon Journal, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com - The Akron Beacon Journal, www.ancestry.com - Wadsworth High School Yearbook 1930