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Personal info

Full name
BROWNING, Joseph Clay Truman
Date of birth
2 October 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
Hometown
Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina

Military service

Service number
34965171
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Brulange–Thonville, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 13 61

Immediate family

Members
Joseph W. Browning (father)
Beulah Browning (mother)
Osborne Browning (brother)
Dulet Browning (brother)
Dalbert Browning (brother)
Treva Browning (sister)
Juanita Browning (sister)
Ella M. Browning (sister)
Georgia (Bailey) Browning (wife)
Joseph O. Browning (son)

More information

Pvt Joseph C. T. Browning attended high school for two years and was a delivery truck driver before he enlisted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on 24 March 1944.

Joseph Browning was hit by a bullet in his thorax.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com -1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Kinnick Rovnak Family Tree / U.S. Draft Cards Young Man

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Emmanuel Vincent