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Personal info

Full name
ADAMS, Joe C
Date of birth
27 October 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Maine
Hometown
Cumberland County, Maine

Military service

Service number
31400793
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
378th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
18 November 1944
Place of death
Pont du Sauvage
Longeville-lès-Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
James Adams (father)
Blanche E. (Huntley) Adams (mother)
Pauline Adams (sister)
Nina (Armstrong) Adams (wife)
Joe C. Adams (son)
James R. Adams (son)

More information

Pfc Joe C. Adams was a Maine Game Warden.

He enlisted in Portland, Maine on 28 January 1944.

The Pont du Sauvage was blown up at the moment men of I Company began to cross it. Fifteen men were killed.

For his action that day, Pfc Adams was awarded the Silver Star Medal posthumously.

Together with the other killed members of his unit, he is remembered on a plaque at the bridge.

Pfc Adams is remembered at Oakfield Cemetery in Oakfield, Aroostook County, Maine with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
Photo source: https://www.uswarmemorials.org/admin/images/memorials/1523280596plaquesauvage.jpg, www.findagrave.com - Russ Pickett / Michelle Wood, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife - Maine Warden Service 130th Anniversary