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Personal info

Full name
TRUEX, Alvie Lee
Date of birth
11 October 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana
Hometown
Elkhart County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
35154554
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
275th Infantry Regiment,
70th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 January 1945
Place of death
Baerenthal, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 20 65

Immediate family

Members
Isaac Truex (father)
Arvilla G. (Coppler) Truex (mother)
Forest P. Truex (brother)
Howard W. Truex (brother)
Thomas H. Truex (brother)
Walter A. Truex (brother)
Leta M. Truex (sister)
Mary E. Truex (sister)
Gertrude C. Truex (sister)
Patricia Truex (sister)
Isaac Truex (brother)
Leroy Truex (brother)
Kathleen M. (Baker) Truex (wife)

More information

Sgt Alvie L. Truex enlisted in Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 14 March 1941.

He was a shipping and receiving clerk at American Coating Mills.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://www.trailblazersww2.org, WWII Draft Card, 1920 US Census
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy