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Personal info

Full name
PEHLE, Richard C
Date of birth
25 June 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
Hometown
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
O1289482
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
180th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 October 1944
Place of death
Near Housseras, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 42 11

Immediate family

Members
Otto H. Pehle (father)
Agnes M. (Flodquist) Pehle (mother)
Lillian V. Pehle (sister)
John W. Pehle (brother)
Marian L. Pehle (sister)

More information

Richard Pehle graduated from the University of Iowa in 1940.

He enlisted on 15 March 1941 and received his commission about eighteen months later at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was sent overseas in January 1944, first serving in north Africa and the Anzio beachhead.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Kathy McDermott, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Frost Family Tree, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.findagrave.com - Loren Bender
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, www.ancestry.com - K Schwiebert, The Shield of Phi Kappa Psi - May 1945