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Personal info

Full name
PACE, Kenneth L
Date of birth
26 March 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Oklahoma
Hometown
Okmulgee County, Oklahoma

Military service

Service number
6952858
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
378th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 20 16

Immediate family

Members
Evelyn (Butler) Pace (wife)

More information

On the order of General Kittel, on the morning of 18 November 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 Fuchs 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.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.findagrave.com - Veterans Researcher, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. Social Security Death Index, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
Photo source: https://www.uswarmemorials.org/admin/images/memorials/1523280596plaquesauvage.jpg