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Personal info

Full name
LEVENGOOD, John C
Date of birth
6 December 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Carter County, Missouri
Hometown
Kelly, Carter County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37368963
Rank
Sergeant
Function
Tank Commander
Unit
A Company,
756th Tank Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 April 1945
Place of death
Bucherstrasse 93
Nürnberg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Johnnie W. Levengood (father)
Daisy P. (Loswell) Levengood (mother)
Lucille A. Levengood (sister)
Harry L. Levengood (brother)
Lola M. Levengood (sister)
Roy W. Levengood (brother)
Roy W. Levengood (brother)
Edward Levengood (brother)
Vern H. Levengood (half-brother)
Charles E. Levengood (half-brother)

More information

Sgt John C. Levengood enlisted at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri on 23 June 1942.

In September 1944 he was wounded in a tank accident and from March 1945 to April 1945, he was hospitalized for an object in his eye.

He was killed in action when his tank was hit by a Panzerfaust.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930/1940 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / US WW2 Hospital Admission Cards / Hughes Rouillard Family Tree

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Michael V. Drachman