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Personal info

Full name
POOL, Thomas Marion Jr
Date of birth
18 September 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas
Hometown
Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37633790
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
275th Infantry Regiment,
70th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 32 39

Immediate family

Members
Thomas M. Pool Sr. (father)
Elouise H. (McGehee) Pool (mother)
Marian E. Pool (sister)
Leslie T. Pool (brother)
Shirley D. (Frank) Pool (wife)
Kathryn S. Pool (daughter)

Biography

When Thomas Pool was twenty months old, his mother died, leaving his father with three children.

More information

Pvt Thomas M. Pool Jr. attended college.

He enlisted in Jefferson Barracks, Missouri on 11 February 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Jackson & Reed Family Tree / 1930/1940 Census, http://www.trailblazersww2.org
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy, www.ancestry.com – Jwalkryn / Reedsmokesignalshjr