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Personal info

Full name
PAGE, Woodrow
Date of birth
8 June 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Cherokee County, Texas
Hometown
Vivian, Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Military service

Service number
38519304
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
274th Infantry Regiment,
70th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 February 1945
Place of death
Spicheren, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 6 15

Immediate family

Members
Urban B. Page (father)
Laucleatus Page (mother)
Kenneth E. Page (brother)
Cedric L. Page (brother)
Dollie B. Page (sister)
Billie E. Page (brother)

More information

S/Sgt Woodrow Page graduated from Oil City High School and worked in a shipyard.

He enlisted in Shreveport, Louisiana on 29 July 1943. He trained at Camp Adair, Oregon and went overseas in December 1944.

His brother Billie served in the Marine Air Corps during the war.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Texas Birth Index / 1930 Census, http://www.trailblazersww2.org, www.newspapers.com – Weekly Town Talk Louisiana 31 March 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy