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Personal info

Full name
PAPPENFUSS, Edgar W
Date of birth
1916
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Wisconsin
Hometown
Dodge County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
16006971
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
193rd Glider Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 January 1945
Place of death
Near Houffalize, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 8 19

Immediate family

Members
William F. Pappenfuss (father)
Hedwig (Krueger) Pappenfuss (mother)
William Pappenfuss (brother)
Elsie Pappenfuss (sister)
Arthur Pappenfuss (brother)
Ewald Pappenfuss (brother)
Hattie Pappenfuss (sister)
Harold Pappenfuss (brother)
Frank Pappenfuss (brother)
Werner T. Pappenfuss (brother)

More information

T/Sgt Edgar W. Pappenfuss joined the Regular Army in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 2 October 1940.

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

His brother, Pfc Werner T. Pappenfuss, was killed in April 1945 and is buried at Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1920 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - nepper, http://www.ww2-airborne.us