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Personal info

Full name
SPRING, Harold Conaway
Date of birth
6 February 1914
Age
30
Place of birth
New Athens, Harrison County, Ohio
Hometown
Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon

Military service

Service number
39309677
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
142nd Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters,
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
29 October 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Bruyères, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 22 11

Immediate family

Members
John C. Spring (father)
Martha E. (Conaway) Spring (mother)
Katherine E. Spring (sister)
John E. Spring (brother)
Jane (Gilbert) Spring (wife)

More information

S/Sgt Harold C. Spring attended college before he enlisted in Portland, Oregon on 21 May 1942.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, https://texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org/, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Draft Cards Young Men / WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Mary Downing Mahan Tree, www.findagrave.com – Eric Ackerman

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy, www.newspapers.com – The Record - 10 May 1945