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Personal info

Full name
OTIS, George Herbert III
Date of birth
30 April 1917
Age
28
Place of birth
Louisiana
Hometown
Holtsville, Suffolk County, New York

Military service

Service number
O-518261
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
180th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
12 June 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 17 93

Immediate family

Members
George H. Otis II (father)
Esther E. (McDade) Otis (mother)
Ruth (Kolb) Otis (wife)
Ruth Otis (daughter)

More information

2nd Lt George H. Otis III attended 4 years of college before he enlisted in Syracuse, New York on 15 February 1943. He went overseas in August 1944.

He was killed in an automobile accident in Germany 12 June 1945.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Nancy export, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.newspapers.com - The Brookly Daily Eagle New York 4 October 1945
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