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Personal info

Full name
KEY, Rudy Rubell
Date of birth
4 November 1914
Age
29
Place of birth
Marshall County, Kentucky
Hometown
Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35735313
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
180th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 September 1944
Place of death
Near Randevillers, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 35 34

Immediate family

Members
Edley B. Key (father)
Lottie M. (Vanvactor) Key (mother)
Harvey L. Key (brother)
Mildred M. (Weitlauf) Key (wife)

More information

Pvt Rudy R. Key attended high school for 3 years and was a driver for the Railway Express Agency.

He enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 30 October 1943 and was sent overseas in April 1944. He saw action in Italy and France.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Saint-Juan, France.

He is remembered at the Mount Kenton Cemetery in Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky.

At the time of his death his brother Harvey served at Camp Crowder, Missouri.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Culton Family Tree, www.45thdivision.org, www.newspapers.com - The Paducah Sun Democrat 5 October 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy, www.ancestry.com – Thompson / Wagner