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Personal info

Full name
STEINBACH, Phillip Oscar
Date of birth
10 January 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Honor, Benzie County, Michigan
Hometown
Niles, Berrien County, Michigan

Military service

Service number
36420120
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
324th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 November 1944
Place of death
Strasbourg, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 9 27

Immediate family

Members
Henry L. Steinbach (father)
Mary Ann (Harwood) Steinbach (mother)
Ruth A. Steinbach (sister)
Elmer A. Steinbach (brother)
Eleanor A. Steinbach (sister)
Lewis H. Steinbach (brother)
Wilma M. Steinbach (sister)
Bertha R. Steinbach (sister)
Alger D. Steinbach (brother)
Gerald K. Steinbach (brother)
Emma F. Steinbach (sister)
Sylvester S. Steinbach (brother)

More information

Sgt Phillip O. Steinbach attended high school for three years and was employed at a mushroom plant before he enlisted in Kalamazoo, Michigan on 18 January 1943.
His brother Pfc Elmer A. Steinbach is interred next to him.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / CJH Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.findagrave.com – Andy / Russ Pickett
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – R & S