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Personal info

Full name
SCOTT, James Curry "Jim"
Date of birth
13 May 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio
Hometown
Arlington Heights, Hamilton County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
36688953
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
378th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
21 October 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 28 63

Immediate family

Members
Dewey K. Scott (father)
Helen (Curry) Scott (mother)
Richard Scott (brother)
Lois Scott (sister)

More information

Pfc James C. Scott graduated from high school in 1943.

He enlisted shortly after graduation at Fort Benning, Georgia. After basic training he was sent to the Virginia Military Institute of tha ASTP course. When this program was closed, he was transferred to the infantry as an unlisted and was sent to Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. He was sent overseas in August 1944 and landed in France about the first of October 1944.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Andilly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php, www.newspapers.com, www.newspaperarchive.com - Arlington Heights Herald 10 November 1944
Photo source: -, www.findagrave.com - www.newspaperarchive.com - Jeffery Scott, Arlington Heights Herald 16 August 1945