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Personal info

Full name
HARNES, Paul Franklin
Date of birth
4 July 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Advance, Stoddard County, Missouri
Hometown
Fresno, Fresno County, California

Military service

Service number
39684584
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
328th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 February 1945
Place of death
Fraulautern, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
F 3 24

Immediate family

Members
John B. Harnes (father)
Nora E. (Wilde) Harnes (mother)
Carl P. Harnes (brother)
Geraldine G. Harnes (sister)
Gwendolyn Harnes (sister)
Nina Harnes (wife)

More information

Pfc Paul F. Harnes attended South East Missouri State College and was a bartender at Dee's Place before he enlisted in Fresno, California on 10 October 1942.

The Chaplin of his unit wrote the following to his family: "Your son was killed in action on 20 February 1945, in the city of Fraulautern, Germany. He was part of a machine gun squad that was established in the remains of a building in the city. His position sustained a direct hit from a German 120 mm mortar, and he was known to have been killed instantly."

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Goerke Tree, www.findagrave.com - JPS, www.fold3.com - 26th Infantry Division
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks Cape Girardeau Missouri / Victoria Goerke Dearing, www.newspapers.com - The Fresno Bee - 6 April 1945