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Personal info

Full name
PYNE, Donald Harrison
Date of birth
8 October 1913
Age
31
Place of birth
Walworth, Walworth County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Mount Morris, Genesee County, Michigan

Military service

Service number
36109741
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
314th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 November 1944
Place of death
Frémontville, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 29 21

Immediate family

Members
Chester A. Pyne (father)
Pearl H. (Jacobs) Pyne (mother)
Vivian Pyne (sister)
Manley W. Pyne (brother)
Laverne Pyne (sister)
Norma J. (Dunne) Pyne (wife)

More information

S/Sgt Donald H. Pyne attended high school for one year and was employed at the Chevrolet Motor Company before he enlisted in Detroit, Michigan on 9 April 1941.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his shoulder.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, Combat History 314th Infantry Regiment, www.findagrave.com - Union48
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy