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Personal info

Full name
JENNINGS, Claude Woodrow
Date of birth
24 September 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Roanoke County, Virginia
Hometown
Roanoke, Virginia

Military service

Service number
33128002
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Light Machine Gunner
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Nomeny, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 15 11

Immediate family

Members
Charles L. Jennings Sr. (father)
Lea E. (Ferguson) Jennings (mother)
Wilburn F. Jennings (brother)
Myrtle V. Jennings (sister)
Herman W. Jennings (brother)
Lucille V. Jennings (sister)
Charles L. Jennings Jr. (brother)
Howard H. Jennings (brother)
Gordon C. Jennings (brother)
Leslie R. Jennings (brother)
Emma L. (Grogg) Jennings (wife)
Ruby C. Jennings (daughter)

More information

Pfc Claude W. Jennings was a furniture maker, employed at the Johnson Carper Furniture Company Incorporated before he enlisted in Roanoke, Virginia on 18 July 1942.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / Jennings-Lange-Muir-Shalin Family Tree / Virginia Marriages, www.80thdivision.com
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