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Personal info

Full name
JONES, Walter E
Date of birth
1923
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Tennessee
Hometown
Sullivan County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
O2010682
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
22nd Infantry Regiment,
4th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 April 1945
Place of death
Crailsheim, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
D 24 42

Immediate family

Members
E. S. Jones (father)

More information

2nd Lt Walter E. Jones entered the service 17 June 1943 and went overseas in October 1944.

He was shot in the throat by a sniper.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Danny van der Groen - Company's / 4ID After Action Reports, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, www.newspapers.com - Kingsport News Tennessee 7 April 1945
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