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Personal info

Full name
RUTAN, Loren Chester
Date of birth
29 July 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana
Hometown
Martinsville, Morgan County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
35564386
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
320th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 November 1944
Place of death
Forêt de Château-Salins, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 18 49

Immediate family

Members
Layton T. Rutan (father)
Cora P. (Curtis) Rutan (mother)
Earl V. Rutan (brother)
Gayle T. Rutan (sister)
Mary H. Rutan (sister)
Dorothy L. Rutan (sister)
Marie (Payne) Rutan (wife)

More information

Pfc Loren C. Rutan attended high school for one year before he enlisted in Indianapolis, Indiana on 22 October 1942. He was sent overseas in June 1944.

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 / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Indiana Marriages, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - Karen Forbes Thompson, www.newspapers.com - The Reporter Times, 27 January 1945
Photo source: www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks 1936, Martinsville, Indiana