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Personal info

Full name
WATERS, Paul Augustine
Date of birth
5 November 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Creston, Union County, Iowa
Hometown
Corning, Adams County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
37695478
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
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
B 29 18

Immediate family

Members
James E. Waters (father)
Pearl A. (Dodge) Waters (mother)
Earl F. Waters (brother)
Patsy A. Waters (sister)
Waunetta L. (Bohanan) Waters (wife)
Monica A. Waters (daughter)

More information

Pvt Paul A. Waters attended high school for four years and was employed as a manager of the Rauch Billiard Parlor before he enlisted at Camp Dodge Herrold, Iowa on 18 April 1944. He was sent overseas in November 1944.

He was killed by small arms fire.

He is remembered at the Mount Zion Cemetery in Adams County, Iowa.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Kintzy Family Tree / Iowa WWII Bonus Case Files / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com – Brad Albee
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy / Brad Albee, www.ancestry.com – Conij Curry