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Personal info

Full name
LEGAN, William Arthur
Date of birth
20 January 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Johnson County, Indiana
Hometown
Southeast, Winston County, Mississippi

Military service

Service number
O-468847
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Arnaville, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 14 46

Immediate family

Members
William H. Legan (father)
Hattie M. (Urlacher) Legan (mother)
Ruth Legan (sister))
Henry N. Legan (brother)
Thomas L. Legan (brother)
Rosa W. (Gaddis) Legan (wife)

More information

1st Lt William A. Legan graduated at Morton Mississippi High School and at the Mississippi State College with a degree in Chemical Engineering.

He had taken the ROTC course and was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, Camp Shelby, Mississippi and Fort Meade, Maryland.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of St. James, France.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / Indiana Birth Records, www.findagrave.com – Carol Bee / William Taber, "A footsoldier for Patton" - Michael C. Bilder/James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO

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