Missing information?
Do you have any additional information you would like to share about a soldier?
Submit- Full
name
ROHRABACHER, Kenneth Harold - Date of
birth
15 June 1918 -
Age
26 - Place of
birth
Oak Grove, Livingston County, Michigan -
Hometown
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
36114154 -
Rank
Staff Sergeant -
Function
unknown -
Unit
254th Engineer Combat Battalion
-
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster
Death
-
Status
Finding of Death - Date of
death
19 September 1944 - Place of
death
In the vicinity of Wallendorg, Germany
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
-
Members
Albert L. Rohrabacher (father)
Carrie B. (Allen) Rohrabacher (mother)
Beatrice V. Rohrabacher (sister)
Bernice S. Rohrabacher (sister)
Geneva B. Rohrabacher (sister)
Genevieve M. Rohrabacher (sister)
Eva A. Rohrabacher (sister)
Marletta I. Rohrabacher (sister)
Albert H. Rohrabacher (brother)
Carrie E. Rohrabacher (sister)
Kathryn C. Rohrabacher (twin sister)
More information
S/Sgt Kenneth H. Rohrabacher was a driver for the Simmons Wholesale Grocery Company before he enlisted in Detroit, Michigan, on 5 May 1941. He was sent overseas on 16 July 1942.On 14 February 1945, a letter from the Adjutant General revealed that on 19 September 1944, Sgt Rohrabacher, with other soldiers, was hauling rock for the repair of a by-pass in the vicinity of Wallendorf, Germany, when the truck was fired upon by the enemy. The men dismounted, and Sgt Rohrabacher was last seen proceeding along the by-pass to the main road. Enemy action made a search impossible, the letter told.
He is remembered at the Byron Cemetery in Byron, Shiawassee County, Michigan.
Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, wwiimemorial, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.findagrave.com - Rob Knapp
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Ron Knapp