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Personal info

Full name
CHOATE, Gene
Date of birth
20 August 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado
Hometown
Tranquillity, Fresno County, California

Military service

Service number
39696582
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
16th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
21 January 1945
Place of death
Schoppen, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 3 53

Immediate family

Members
W. Ernest Choate (father)
Mary E. (Belschner) Choate (mother)
Dan W. Choate (brother)
Erving Choate (brother)

More information

Pfc Gene Choate was an employee of the Central Fibre Company before he enlisted in Fresno, California on 22 March 1943.

He was taken prisoner of war and died of his injuries in a hospital in Schoppen, Belgium.

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 - U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.16thinfassn.org
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery