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Personal info

Full name
REECE, Fred H
Date of birth
1 March 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Watauga County, North Carolina
Hometown
Mabel, Watauga County, North Carolina

Military service

Service number
34431650
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
179th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 October 1944
Place of death
Grandvillers, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 40 9

Immediate family

Members
Grady Y. Reece (father)
Louisa A. (Oliver) Reece (mother)
Glenn E. Reece (brother)
Earl K. Reece (brother)

More information

Pvt Fred H. Reece worked on a farm before he enlisted in Camp Croft, South Carolina on 17 September 1942.

He was killed in the German counterattack conducted by the 111th Panzer Grenadiers of the 11th Panzer Division through the Mortagne Forest and Hill 484 to the west of Grandvillers.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Ford Family Tree, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy