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Personal info

Full name
CLIMER, Dan White
Date of birth
21 October 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Summit County, Ohio
Hometown
Akron, Summit County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
15400716
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
345th Infantry Regiment,
87th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 December 1944
Place of death
Medelsheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
F 9 16

Immediate family

Members
Frederick W. Climer (father)
Irene E. (White) Climer (mother)

More information

Pfc Dan W. Climer worked at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company before he joined the U.S. Army Reserve in Akron, Ohio on 4 August 1943.

He is remembered at the Greenmound Cemetery in New Richmond, Clermont County, Ohio.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Kathy McDermott, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Ohio Birth Index, http://87thinfantrydivision.com, www.findagrave.com - gjbrell
Photo source: www.ancestry.com – U.S. School Yearbooks Hudson Ohio, www.findagrave.com - gjbrell, The Akron Beacon Journal - 21 March 1945