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Personal info

Full name
LAPOINTE, Rene Joseph
Date of birth
15 September 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Hometown
New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31297586
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
254th Infantry Regiment,
63rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 April 1945
Place of death
Ingelfingen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 26 8

Immediate family

Members
Donat Lapointe (father)
Marie Y. (Riendeau) Lapointe (mother)
Mary F. Lapointe (sister)

More information

Pfc Rene J. Lapointe was employed at the Ford Bacon & Davis Construction Company before he enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 16 February 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his shoulder.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Nolin Lemieux Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.63rdinfdiv.com, www.findagrave.com
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