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Personal info

Full name
KUPPEL, James Theodore
Date of birth
7 February 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Yeagertown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Leeds Point, Atlantic County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
32070067
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
114th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 November 1944
Place of death
Near Nancy, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 31 40

Immediate family

Members
August Kuppel (father)
Maria A. Kupper (mother)
Margaret E. Kuppel (sister)
Mabel C. Kuppel (sister)
Charles F. Kuppel (brother)
Walter I. Kuppel (brother)
Robert P. Kuppel (brother)
Earl W. Kuppel (brother)
Albert D. Kuppel (brother)
Doris C. Kuppel (wife)

More information

T/Sgt James T. Kuppel attended high school for one year and was a driver before he enlisted in Camden, New Jersey on 28 November 1940.

He was killed by aerial bombs fragments in his chest.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, 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 / 1930 Census / U.S. WWII Jewish Servicemen Cards / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy