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Personal info

Full name
SCHNEIDER, Victor C
Date of birth
16 February 1926
Age
18
Place of birth
Wisconsin
Hometown
Oshkosh, Winnebago County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
16157732
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
422nd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
24 December 1944
Place of death
Gerolstein, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 1 32

Immediate family

Members
Anton J. Schneider (father)
Agnes V. (Klein) Schneider (mother)
Gregory W. Schneider (brother)
Harry Schneider (brother)
Virginia Schneider (sister)
Norman Schneider (brother)

More information

Pvt Victor C. Schneider attended St. Vincent Junior High School and was employed as a filling station attendant at Pipkorn Fuel and Supply Company before he joined the U.S. Army Reserve at Fort Sheridan, Illinois on 13 March 1944.

He was reported Missing in Action near Schlausenbach, Germany on 16 December 1944.

Later he was reported by the German Government as taken prisoner and that he was killed in Gerolstein, Germany during an allied air raid on the railroad yard where the POWs were closed up in boxcars.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery, The Oshkosh Northwestern - 2 January 1945