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Personal info

Full name
DANIELS, Ronald H
Date of birth
2 March 1919
Age
26
Place of birth
New York City, New York County, New York
Hometown
Alabama, Genesee County, New York

Military service

Service number
1049785
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
1st Battalion,
423rd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 April 1945
Place of death
Nuremberg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
F 16 19

Immediate family

Members
Henry A. Daniels (father)
Nora (Harloff) Daniels (mother)
Louise Daniels (stepmother)
Oralee A. Daniels (sister)
Aletha D. Daniels (sister)
Phyllis E. (Luttrell) Daniels (wife)
Lynn Daniels (daughter)

More information

2nd Lt Ronald H. Daniels graduated from Oakfield High School in Alabama, New York and worked at the Gypsum Railroad Factory.

He joined the Regular Army in Rochester, New York on 24 October 1940 and served nine months in Panama before entering Officer's Candidate School at Camp Davis, North Carolina.

He was a POW at Oflag XIII-A in the vicinity of Nuremberg, Germany.

During an air raid on the Nuremberg railroad yard on 5 April 1945, performed by the U.S. Army Airforce, a column of American prisoners, all of them officers, was hit with 29 men killed.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Prisoners of War / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. School Yearbooks, www.findagrave.com, http://www.indianamilitary.org/106ID

Photo source: www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks, www.findagrave.com - Frogman, Gold Star Memorial Book - Genesee County, NY