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Personal info

Full name
CORBIN, Cletus Crawford
Date of birth
16 July 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Wharton, Wyandot County, Ohio
Hometown
Wharton, Wyandot County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35546879
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
324th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 April 1945
Place of death
Near Ehingen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 4 15

Immediate family

Members
James N. Corbin (father)
Ethel M. (Flatter) Corbin (mother)
Blanche M. Corbin (sister)
Robert L. Corbin (brother)

More information

Pfc Cletus C. Corbin was employed at the New York Central Rail Road Company before he enlisted in Toledo, Ohio on 12 February 1943. He arrived at the French port of Cherbourg in September 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his neck.

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 / Flatter Warner Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com – The Marion Star 3 May 1945
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