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Personal info

Full name
REESE, Ivan Lawrence
Date of birth
6 April 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Whitewater, Walworth County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Whitewater, Walworth County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
O1324849
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
324th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 24 10

Immediate family

Members
Willard F. Reese (father)
Margaret J. (Mawhinney) Reese (mother)
Willard F. Reese Jr. (brother)
Dorothy J. (Pemberton) Reese (wife)
Rodney R. Reese (son)

More information

2nd Lt Ivan L. Reese graduated from Whitewater High School in 1938 and attended Whitewater State Teachers College for two years.

He was a sales clerk before he enlisted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 29 October 1942. He was sent overseas in August 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 / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1930 Census, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com - Wisconsin State Journal 7 December 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, State Teachers College, 1940