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Personal info

Full name
HEATH, James Coburn
Date of birth
29 December 1923
Age
20
Place of birth
Dudley, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Howard, Centre County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33573639
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
71st Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 November 1944
Place of death
Leintrey, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 10 23

Immediate family

Members
James T. Heath (father)
Grace E. H. Heath (mother)

More information

Pvt James C. Heath attended high school for two years and was a driver before he enlisted in Altoona, Pennsylvania on 22 February 1943.
He was sent to France in September 1944.

He was killed by small arms fire.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - A Grateful American, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application Files WWII / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com - Harrisburg Telegraph 4 December 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy