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Personal info

Full name
SHOUP, John Sherman
Date of birth
1 November 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Cicero, Cook County, Illinois
Hometown
Shawnee County, Kansas

Military service

Service number
37751227
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
276th Infantry Regiment,
70th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 February 1945
Place of death
Folkling, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 27 36

Immediate family

Members
Sherman Shoup (father)
Mary A. (Cell) Shoup (mother)
Alfred C. Shoup (brother)
George C. Shoup (brother)
Charles E. Shoup (brother)
Alice C. Shoup (sister)
Dorothy H. Shoup (sister)
Robert A. Shoup (brother)
Mary E. Shoup (sister)

More information

Pvt John S. Shoup was a pressman before he enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on 29 August 1944.

He is remembered at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Christina Leifried Family Tree / 1930 Census / Cook County Illinois Birth Certificates Index, http://www.trailblazersww2.org, www.findagrave.com – Cheryl White
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com - Gotwind