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Personal info

Full name
BRAUN, Fritz
Date of birth
22 December 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Langenselbold, Germany
Hometown
Baltimore, Maryland

Military service

Service number
33887340
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
324th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 April 1945
Place of death
Near Bensheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 23 71

Immediate family

Members
Margaret Braun (mother)

More information

Pfc Fritz Braun attended high school for four years and was a machinist before he enlisted at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland on 5 May 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his buttock and hip.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com - Russ Pickett
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