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Personal info

Full name
MITCHELL, Edward A Jr
Date of birth
1921
Age
unknown
Place of birth
California
Hometown
Lake County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
O-1184414
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
B Battery,
377th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
14 January 1945
Place of death
Near Bastogne Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 9 72

Immediate family

Members
Edward A. Mitchell (father)
Mabelle M. Mitchell (mother)
June E. Mitchell (sister)

More information

1st Lt Edward A. Mitchell Jr. worked in a chemical plant before he joined the Regular Army in Chicago, Illinois on 15 September 1942.

He was a veteran of the D-Day landing in Normandy and the Operation Market-Garden in The Netherlands.

He was killed in action by artillery fire.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us, www.newspapers.com - The McHenry Plaindealer

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery