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Personal info

Full name
WITHERS, James Delno
Date of birth
13 September 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Cains Store, Pulaski County, Kentucky
Hometown
Casey County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35704524
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
17 January 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
G 17 30

Immediate family

Members
J. W. Withers (father)
Betty Withers (daughter)

More information

Pfc James D. Withers enlisted in Louisville, Kentucky on 10 June 1943.

He worked on a farm before he enlisted.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record / World War II Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
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