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Personal info

Full name
POWELL, Aaron Melvin
Date of birth
5 December 1916
Age
27
Place of birth
Reeds, Jasper County, Missouri
Hometown
Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37732304
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
50th Armored Infantry Battalion,
6th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 October 1944
Place of death
Ajoncourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 21 24

Immediate family

Members
Chaslie B. Powell (father)
Rosa M. (French) Powell (mother)
Willard J. Powell (brother)
Ruth E. (Proctor) Powell (wife)
Anthony J. Powell (son)

More information

Pfc Aaron M. Powell was a skilled miner and mining-machine operator before he enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on 31 January 1944.
He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, 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 / Corvell French Family, www.findagrave.com - Dottie Meadows, www.6tharmoreddivision.com, www.super6th.org
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Major M