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Personal info

Full name
FULKERSON, Earnest Chester
Date of birth
5 July 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Big Clifty, Grayson County, Kentucky
Hometown
Big Clifty, Grayson County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35701370
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
50th Armored Infantry Battalion,
6th Armored Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
27 February 1945
Place of death
Near Lünebach, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
F 8 6

Immediate family

Members
Claude Fulkerson (father)
Grace (Pickerill) Fulkerson (mother)
Edith P. Fulkerson (sister)
Ivan Fulkerson (brother)
Pansy L. Fulkerson (sister)

More information

Pfc Earnest C. Fulkerson attended high school for one year and worked on a farm before he enlisted in Louisville, Kentucky on 8 April 1943.

He was wounded in action by artillery shell fragments.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Kentucky Birth Index, www.findagrave.com, www.6tharmoreddivision.com, www.super6th.org
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com – Ronan Urvoaz