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Personal info

Full name
SHANER, William Howard
Date of birth
25 September 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Ohio
Hometown
Allen County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35297399
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
179th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 34 38

Immediate family

Members
Charles R. Shaner (father)
Zoa E. (Yeney) Shaner (mother)
Dillon J. Shaner (brother)
Oscar L. Shaner (brother)
Dan E. Shaner (brother)
Alice M. Shaner (sister)
Viola N. Shaner (sister)
Bessie Y. Shaner (sister)
Victoria Q. Shaner (sister)
Charles R. Shaner (brother)
Virginia L. Shaner (sister)
Benjamin F. Shaner (brother)
John F. Shaner (brother)
Carl L. Shaner (brother)
Earl E. Shaner (brother)
Dorothy L. Shaner (sister)
Glenn A. Shaner (brother)
Roseanne Shaner (sister)
Sarah A. Shaner (wife)

More information

Pvt William H. Shaner enlisted in Toledo, Ohio on 17 December 1943.
He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Saint-Juan, France.

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