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Personal info

Full name
HEVEL, George Edward Jr
Date of birth
4 February 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33508889
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
180th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 January 1945
Place of death
Mertzwiller, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 44 34

Immediate family

Members
George E. Hevel Sr. (father)
Sarah G. (Esenberger) Hevel (mother)
Doris L. (Underdonk) Hevel (wife)
George E. Hevel (son)

More information

Pfc George E. Hevel Jr. attended high school for 3 years before he enlisted in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 6 May 1943.

He went overseas in October 1943 and had seen action in North Africa and Italy.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application Files WWII / Hevel Family Tree / Pennsylvania Marriages, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.newspapers.com – Harrisburg Telegraph Pennsylvania 23 January 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Joel Frampton Gilfert