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Personal info

Full name
PIERCE, Phillips B
Date of birth
1924
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Maine
Hometown
Essex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
11129354
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
101st Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 October 1944
Place of death
Bezange-la-Petite, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 12 28

Immediate family

Members
Chester H. Pierce (father)
Marjorie (Phillips) Pierce (mother)

More information

Pvt Phillips B. Pierce attended college for two years before he joined the U.S. Army Reserve in Waterville, Maine on 8 December 1942.

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, www.fold3.com - 26th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Major M