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Personal info

Full name
PIERCE, Delmar E
Date of birth
1915
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Illinois
Hometown
Kewanee, Henry County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36052155
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Dornot – Arnaville, the Moselle Bridgehead, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 36 25

Immediate family

Members
Claude E. Pierce (father)
Myrtle (Waganeer) Pierce (mother)
Claude W. Pierce (brother)

More information

S/Sgt Delmar E. Pierce worked in a foundry before he enlisted at Fort Custer, Michigan on 19 August 1941.

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

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com – U.S. Headstone and Interment Record 1942-1949, A footsoldier for Patton / Michael C. Bilder James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO

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