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Personal info

Full name
PENA, Jesus
Date of birth
19 April 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Delmita, Starr County, Texas
Hometown
Delmita, Starr County, Texas

Military service

Service number
38672471
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
315th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
28 October 1944
Place of death
Near Emberménil, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 8 66

Immediate family

Members
Eugenio L. Pena (father)
Daria (Farias) Pena (mother)
Eugenio Pena Jr. (brother)
Petra Pena (sister)
Santos Pena (brother)
Celia Pena (sister)
Oralia Pena (sister)
Arcadia Pena (sister)

More information

Pvt Jesus Pena worked on a farm before he enlisted at Fort Sam Houston, Texas on 27 March 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his hip and buttock.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - A Grateful America, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, Combat History 79th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - James Durham
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, www.ancestry.com - Elena Villarreal Soto