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Personal info

Full name
SHIELDS, James Buster
Date of birth
1 April 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Cromwell, Ohio County, Kentucky
Hometown
Cromwell, Ohio County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35731901
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
249th Engineer Combat Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 January 1945
Place of death
Wiltz, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
F 8 19

Immediate family

Members
Birch M. Shields (father)
Lee (Renfrow) Shields (mother)
A. Z. Shields (sister)
Bennie C. Shields (sister)
Clay C. Shields (brother)
Lanny R. Shields (brother)
Albert R. Shields (brother)

More information

Pvt James B. Shields enlisted in Evansville, Indiana on 22 June 1943.

He was killed by a land mine.

He is remembered at the Sunnyside Cemetery in Beaver Dam, Ohio County, Kentucky.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Wendel Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton / Carol Kaye / Anita R. Austill
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - Anita R. Austrill