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Personal info

Full name
ECHOLS, Millard Alvin "Doc"
Date of birth
7 September 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Broken Bow, McCurtain County, Oklahoma
Hometown
Broken Bow, McCurtain County, Oklahoma

Military service

Service number
38583154
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
320th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
3 October 1944
Place of death
Pettoncourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 6 81

Immediate family

Members
Homer D. Echols (father)
Minnie L. (Jones) Echols (mother)
William N. Echols (brother)
Nellie E. Echols (sister)
Benjamin F. Echols (brother)
Mack H. Echols (brother)
Jim R. Echols (brother)
Mattie F. Echols (sister)
Homer D. Echols (brother)
Doris J. Echols (sister)
Pearl B. (Chappell) Echols (wife)
Larry A. Echols (son)

More information

Pvt Millard A. Echols worked on a farm before he enlisted in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 1 October 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his chest.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, France.

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 / Hennigan Echols Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com – MAJ Jimmy Cotton

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