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Personal info

Full name
PORTER, Walter A
Date of birth
1921
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Oklahoma
Hometown
Garvin County, Oklahoma

Military service

Service number
20829709
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
180th Infantry Regiment,
45th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 April 1945
Place of death
Near Quickborn, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 5 21

Immediate family

Members
Thornton Porter (father)
Nancy Porter (mother)
Victor Porter (brother)
Josephine Porter (sister)
Eli J. Porter (brother)

More information

Pfc Walter A. Porter attended high school for 3 years before he joined the National Guard in McAlester, Oklahoma on 16 September 1940.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census, http://www.45thdivision.org, www.findagrave.com
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