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Personal info

Full name
CRIBBS, Clair George
Date of birth
21 June 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Blairsville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Blairsville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33573521
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
71st Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 November 1944
Place of death
Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 21 15

Immediate family

Members
George M. Cribbs (father)
Mabel G. (Cramer) Cribbs (mother)
Mildred I. Cribbs (sister)
Charles M. Cribbs (brother)

More information

Cpl Clair G. Cribbs graduated from Blairsville High School in 1941 and attended Greensburg Business College for 1 year. He was the manager of the Globe Theater in Latrobe.

He enlisted in Altoona, Pennsylvania on 20 February 1943. He was sent overseas on 31 August 1944.
He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his stomach.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, Kathy McDermott, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Garland Family Tree, www.findagrave.com – Garrett, www.newspapers.com – The Indiana Gazette 5 December 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, Indiana Evening Gazette - 17 January 1945