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Personal info

Full name
SEARCY, James Jasper III
Date of birth
12 December 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
St. Louis, Missouri
Hometown
St. Louis, Missouri

Military service

Service number
37414048
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
Anti-Tank Company,
3rd Battalion,
423rd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
10 February 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 3 5

Immediate family

Members
James J. Searcy Jr. (father)
Frances M. (Lovrien) Searcy (mother)

More information

Pfc James. J. Searcy III graduate from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.

He enlisted at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri on 26 January 1943.

In December 1942, he tried to enlist in all branches of the service, but was rejected. In January 1943 he was inducted and transferred to the Medical Corps of the Coastal Artillery Anti Aircraft Corps. He served for almost a year in the Western Coastal Defence in the vicinity of San Francisco. In March 1944, he volunteered for the infantry.

On 19 December 1944, in Schönberg, Belgium, he was hit in the lower back by schrapnel and taken to the 3rd Battalion field hospital. In the chaos of the retreat during the beginning of the German attack in the Ardennes, Belgium, he was reported Missing in Action on 21 December. It turned out that he was taken prisoner. He died of his injuries on the train between Bad Breisig and Limburg A/D Lahn in Germany.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / WWII Prisoners of War / Lovering of New Hampshire Family Tree / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men / Pritzker Military Museum, www.indianamilitary.org/106ID/SoThinkMenu/SoThinkTOC106th.htm
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Britney H., St Louis Post Dispatch - 24 March 1945