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Personal info

Full name
WEISER, Willard Frederick
Date of birth
19 March 1916
Age
29
Place of birth
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Hometown
Queens, Queens County, New York

Military service

Service number
32975884
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
324th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 April 1945
Place of death
Aufhausen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
D 3 28

Immediate family

Members
Fred Weiser (father)
Elizabeth Weiser (mother)
Edna A. Weiser (sister)
Wilma H. (Gundersen) Weiser (wife)

More information

Pfc Willard F. Weiser attended college for three years and was a bookkeeper and cashier before he enlisted in New York City, New York on 28 June 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his skull.

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 / Clark Family Tree / 1920 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com
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