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Personal info

Full name
PORTUGAL, Walter Carl
Date of birth
19 July 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Polk County, Iowa
Hometown
Jasper County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
37664205
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
326th Airborne Engineer Battalion,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 9 14

Immediate family

Members
Walter P. Portugal (father)
Grace M. (Davis) Portugal (mother)
Othmel Portugal (brother)
Leona P. Portugal (sister)

More information

S/Sgt Walter C. Portugal was a draftsman.

He enlisted at Camp Dodge Herrold, Iowa on 5 March 1943.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Messerie Klock Hurtt Bartels Family Tree / 1925 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - nepper, www.ancestry.com - Newton High School Yearbook 1946