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MILLICE, Dave R - Date of
birth
1923 -
Age
unknown - Place of
birth
Tennesee -
Hometown
St. Louis, Missouri
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
O-548865 -
Rank
Second Lieutenant -
Function
Platoon Commander -
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
423rd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
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Awards
Bronze Star
Death
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Status
Died non-Battle - Date of
death
20 February 1945 - Place of
death
Mühlberg, Germany
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
Carl T. Millice (father)
Mildred M. Millice (mother)
Carl Millice (brother)
John K. Millice (brother)
More information
2nd Lt Dave R. Millice attended the University of Tennessee. He worked as a purchasing agent for the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Co.He joined the U.S. Army Reserve in Knoxville, Tennessee on 10 June 1942. He was sent overseas in the fall of 1944.
He was taken prisoner of war in the vicinity of St. Vith, Belgium on 21 December 1944 and died in the POW camp Stalag IV-B from pneumonia.
The prisoners who died in this camp were buried in a cemetery in Neuburxdorf near Mühlberg. A lot of the remains could not be identified after the war.
Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Prisoners of War / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. School Yearbooks, www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/SoThinkMenu/106thSTART, www.newspapers.com - St. Louis Post Dispatch - 4 December 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Have Paws, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks