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Personal info

Full name
MCLAUGHLIN, James Patrick "Jimmy"
Date of birth
8 August 1925
Age
20
Place of birth
Spring Lake, Monmouth County, New Jersey
Hometown
Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
42186281
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
254th Infantry Regiment,
63rd Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
4 March 1946
Place of death
Hartungshof, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Hugh J. McLaughlin (father)
Rosemary C. (Butler) McLaughlin (mother)
Bamba A. McLaughlin (sister)
Sheila M. McLaughlin (sister)
Marie V. McLaughlin (sister)

More information

Pvt James P. McLaughlin attended college for one year before he enlisted in Newark, New Jersey on 14 August 1944.

He was officially declared dead one year and one day after he was reported missing in action. At that time his unit was fighting in the vicinity of Hartungshof, Germany.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1930 Census / Sinnenberg Butler Family Tree, www.63rdinfdiv.com, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Frogman, www.ancestry.com - Paul Butler Sinnenberg