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Personal info

Full name
SMITH, Norvel Collie
Date of birth
15 April 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Lyon County, Kentucky
Hometown
Kuttawa, Lyon County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35835167
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
7th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 March 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Medelsheim-Utweiler, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 42 11

Immediate family

Members
Hubert H. Smith (father)
Mary H. (Travis) Smith (mother)
Lavata Smith (sister)
Aubrey H. Smith (brother)
Ordra H. Smith (sister)
Mary A. Smith (sister)
Veldon J. Smith (brother)
Dorothy L. Smith (sister)
Sybil A. Smith (sister)
Kelsie L. Smith (brother)
Willie A. (Gray) Smith (wife)
Orpha D. Smith (step-daughter)
Walter H. Smith (son)
Mary S. Smith (daughter)

More information

Sgt Norvel C. Smith worked on a farm.

He enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 26 April 1944.

On 18 June 1944 his brother Veldon was killed in action in Italy. He is buried at the Florence American Military Cemetery.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, History 3rd Infantry Division WWII
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