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Personal info

Full name
METZ, Donald Herschel
Date of birth
5 April 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Nazareth, Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33928107
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
134th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 November 1944
Place of death
Achain, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 29 21

Immediate family

Members
Otto S. Metz (father)
Marie H. (Cory) Metz (mother)
Kathryn M. (Peters) Metz (wife)
Janet M. Metz (daughter)

More information

Pvt Donald H. Metz graduated from Nazareth High School with the class of 1939 and was employed by the Nazareth Waist Mill before he enlisted in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on 27 March 1944. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his chest.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, France.

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 / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card / Echelberger Family Tree, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - Blazen
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