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FOXGROVER, Charles Jr "Chink" - Date of
birth
9 January 1922 -
Age
23 - Place of
birth
Appleton, Winnebago County, Wisconsin -
Hometown
Appleton, Winnebago County, Wisconsin
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
36285762 -
Rank
Staff Sergeant -
Function
Squad Leader -
Unit
HQ Company,
1st Battalion,
376th Infantry Regiment,
94th Infantry Division,
Anti-Tank Platoon
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Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart
Death
-
Status
Died of Wounds - Date of
death
20 January 1945 - Place of
death
France
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
| Plot | Row | Grave |
|---|---|---|
| C | 1 | 5 |
Immediate family
-
Members
Charles Foxgrover Sr. (father)
Elizabeth (Rhode) Foxgrover (mother)
John Foxgrover (brother)
More information
S/Sgt Charles Foxgrover attended college and was a welder and flame cutter before he enlisted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 25 November 1942.On 18 January 1945 near Tettingen, Lt Peters and his platoon sergeant Joseph J. Quentz, were wounded by an 88mm gun and had to be evacuated. S/Sgt Charles Foxgrover then had his anti-tank gun crew get their 57mm gun firing on the tank behind the church at a range of three hundred yards, and they succeeded in knocking it out before it could turn its turret. However, a mortar shell then hit S/Sgt Foxgrover and most of the crew as they were changing position, wounding most of the men and jamming the trails of the gun. Foxgrover died in a hospital in France.
Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://www.94thinfdiv.com, www.newspapers.com – Green Bay Press Gazette Wisconsin 13 March 1945, https://archive.org/stream/HistoryOfThe94thInfantryWWII/HistoryOfThe94thInfantryWWII_djvu.txt, Green Bay Press Gazette - 4 January 1972, The Menasha Record - 6 February 1945, WWII Draft Card
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery, www.newspapers.com – Green Bay Press Gazette - 13 March 1945