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Personal info

Full name
LEE, Kim
Date of birth
1915
Age
unknown
Place of birth
China
Hometown
Los Angeles County, California
Ethnicity
Chinese American

Military service

Service number
39547767
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
Service Company,
508th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
12 April 1945
Place of death
Frankfurt, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 31 58

Immediate family

Members
Helen Lee (wife)

More information

Pfc Kim Lee was a sales clerk before he enlisted in Los Angeles County, California on 9 December 1942.

He died of injuries to his brain and chest, sustained as a passenger in a vehicle accident.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Champigneul, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com – Dick O’Donnell, www.ww2-airborne.us

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy