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Personal info

Full name
MCGUIRE, Charles B
Date of birth
1920
Age
unknown
Place of birth
New York
Hometown
Bayside, Queens County, New York

Military service

Service number
32639643
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
2nd Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 May 1945
Place of death
West of Volary, Czechoslovakia

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 6 35

Immediate family

Members
Charles F. McGuire (father)
Mary M. McGuire (mother)
Robert McGuire (brother)
Joseph McGuire (brother)
James McGuire (brother)
Mary McGuire (sister)

More information

Pfc Charles B. McGuire worked in a machine shop before he enlisted in New York City, New York on 21 November 1942.

During a search for German soldiers who could still be in the vicinity, Pfc McGuire dragged his carabine along the ground. The trigger caught on some foliage and the gun discharged. A bullet went through his stomach. In 15 minutes, his live slipped away, his head in the lap of another soldier.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census / A foot soldier for Patton - Michael C. Bilder / James G. Bilder

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