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Personal info

Full name
SHEETS, Paul Philip
Date of birth
22 April 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Wells County, Indiana
Hometown
Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
35834311
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
328th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 December 1944
Place of death
Wittring, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 15 36

Immediate family

Members
Ozro E. Sheets (father)
Catherine I. (Mossburg) Sheets (mother)
Elza E. Sheets (sister)
Noel M. Sheets (brother)
Helen B. Sheets (sister)
Mabel P. Sheets (sister)
Ina M. Sheets (sister)
Dorothy C. Sheets (sister)
Doris E. Sheets (sister)
Doris M. (Wolf) Sheets (wife)
Linda S. Sheets (daughter)
Sandra K. Sheets (daughter)

More information

Pvt Paul P. Sheets attended high school for four years and was employed at the Estey Piano Company before he enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 22 April 1944. He was sent overseas in October 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his neck.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Hochfelden, 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 / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 26th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com - The Indianapolis News 26 December 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Marshall and Mary McIntyre, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks Bluffton