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Personal info

Full name
SNYDER, Walter Emerson Jr "Junior"
Date of birth
8 July 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Religion
Protestant

Military service

Service number
13048623
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 April 1945
Place of death
Erfurt, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
B 12 8

Immediate family

Members
Walter E. Snyder Sr. (father)
Elizabeth (Shetzley) Snyder (mother)
Elizabeth L. Snyder (sister)

More information

T/5 Walter E. Snyder graduated from Lykens High School with the class of 1938 where he was member of the school band and the 1937-38 champion football team.

He enlisted in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 9 February 1942 and served as a bugler at Camp Quincy, Massachusetts, Fort Eustice, Virginia, Camp Stewart, Georgia and Camp Gordon, Georgia. He was transfered to the infantry and after a short training was sent overseas on 1 February 1945.

His father was mayor, owned a jewelry store and was an optometrist.

He was killed by sniper fire in the chest.

Source of information: 80th Infantry Division veteran James Drylie, Erik Snijder, Melissa Shetzley Pepper (cousin), www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record/ 1930 Census, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, IDPF, www.newspapers.com - Snyder Register

Photo source: Sebastiaan Vonk, Erik Snijder