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Personal info

Full name
HILER, Donald Flenner
Date of birth
1916
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Ohio
Hometown
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35243746
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
2nd Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 January 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Ingeldorf-Diekirch, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 12 23

Immediate family

Members
Richard C. Hiler (father)
Marie (Flenner) Hiler (mother)
Dorothy Hiler (sister)
Mary A. (Carpenter) Hiler (wife)
Richard Hiler (son)

More information

Pvt Donald F. Hiler graduated from Martinsville High School and worked in a factory.

He enlisted at Fort. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 2 March 1944. He was wounded in France in September, 1944 and had retuned to his outfit shortly before his death.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, , www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com – 1920/1930 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record / Ray Lewandowski Family Tree, A footsoldier for Patton / Michael C. Bilder James G. Bilder

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - M Bligh Kumar, www.newspapers.com - Dayton Daily News