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Personal info

Full name
SHADE, Walter George
Date of birth
26 June 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Lakemont, Blair County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33257309
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
19th Tank Battalion,
9th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 December 1944
Place of death
Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 19 23

Immediate family

Members
Walter B. Shade (father)
Florence R. (May) Shade (mother)
Norman L. Shade (brother)
James B. Shade (brother)
Edna P. (Balliet) Shade (wife)
Walter Blair Shade (son)

More information

T/5 Walter G. Shade was a railroad brakeman. He was married to Edna Pearl Balliet on 13 October 1942.

He enlisted in Altoona, Pennsylvania on 5 November 1942.

His brother, Sgt Norman L. Shade, was killed on 7 August 1945, three miles west of Tinian Island in the Pacific. He served as a gunner on a B-29 Superfortress. He is remembered at the Courts of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial.

Source of information: André Koch, Kathy McDermott, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Pennsylvania, Veteran Compensation Application Files, WWII, 1950-1966 / https://newspaperarchive.com - The Altoona Mirror - 24 January 1945, 27 August 1945 / https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/98546

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Altoona High School 1940 Horseshoe Yearbook