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Personal info

Full name
WOODS, James
Date of birth
5 May 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Hometown
Monessen, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33167317
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
Service Company,
15th Tank Battalion,
6th Armored Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 October 1944
Place of death
Leyr, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 13 24

Immediate family

Members
Michael Woods (father)
Margaret (Lynch) Woods (mother)
Anne Woods (sister)
Margaret Woods (sister)
Thomas Woods (brother)
Rita D. Woods (wife)

More information

T/5 James Woods attended high school for three years and was employed at the Pittsburgh Steel Company before he enlisted in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on 28 March 1942.
He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, 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 / Williams Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.6tharmoreddivision.com, www.super6th.org
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