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Personal info

Full name
MOSER, Gideon
Date of birth
31 December 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Medina, Stutsman County, North Dakota
Hometown
Yellowstone County, Montana

Military service

Service number
39603942
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
52nd Armored Infantry Battalion,
9th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
31 March 1945
Place of death
Halle, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 10 93

Immediate family

Members
Ludwig P. Moser (father)
Christina (Gohl) Moser (mother)
Anna L. Moser (sister)
Bertha M. Moser (sister)
Matilda E. Moser (sister)
Benjamin L. Moser (brother)
Martha Moser (sister)
Reuben Moser (brother)
Frieda Moser (sister)
Esther V. Moser (sister)
Alfred Moser (brother)
Irene Moser (sister)
Betty L. (Snell) Moser (wife)

More information

Pfc Gideon Moser enlisted in Missoula, Montana on 21 January 1942.

He was taken prisoner of war in early January 1945.

He was killed during an Allied air raid on the city of Halle, Germany. The raid was very big and most of the city was demolished, resulting in more than 20,000 casualties. For weeks the dead were taken out of the buildings and buried in wooden boxes without any regard to nationality. Investigation after the war couldn't locate his grave.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, World War II Prisoners of War Data File www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940 – 1947, After Action report 52nd Armored Infantry Battalion

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - LuxAmCem