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Personal info

Full name
WRIGHTS, George Robert
Date of birth
4 February 1919
Age
26
Place of birth
Pipe Creek, Miami County, Indiana
Hometown
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan

Military service

Service number
36968817
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Rifleman
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 February 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Dillingen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
B 11 15

Immediate family

Members
George Wrights (father)
Edna (Smith) Wrights (mother)
Mary J. Wrights (sister)
Marjory Wrights (sister)
Shirley A. (Rhea) Wrights (wife)
Judith A. Wrights (daughter)

More information

Pfc George R. Wrights graduated from Bunker Hill High School, Indiana, where he was a member of the basketball team. He was employed by the Michigan Bell Thelephone Company.
He enlisted in April 1944 and was sent overseas in December 1944.

Pfc Wrights is remembered at Springdale Cemetery in Bunker Hill, Miami County, Indiana with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930/1940 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card File / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men, www.80thdivision.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery / Rickey Bellamy