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Personal info

Full name
KEENER, James Frederick
Date of birth
7 January 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
13002120
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
Cannon Company,
314th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 October 1944
Place of death
Near Marainviller, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 38 29

Immediate family

Members
Edwin F. Keener (father)
Florence M. (Gulick) Keener (mother)
Joseph P. Keener (brother)
May G. Keener (sister)
William G. Keener (brother)
Bernice (Snyder) Keener (wife)

More information

Sgt James F. Keener completion of his course in the Sunbury High School before he joined the Regular Army in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 6 July 1940 and was sent overseas late in 1943.

He was killed by a land mine.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Barsh Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, Combat History 314th Infantry Regiment, www.findagrave.com - Coleman / K Harned, www.newspapers.com - The Danville Morning News Pennsylvania 31 October 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, www.newspapers.com - The Danville Morning News Pennsylvania 31 October 1944