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Personal info

Full name
GREGORY, Willie Burton
Date of birth
12 October 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Gregory, Braxton County, West Virginia
Hometown
Fayette County, West Virginia

Military service

Service number
35752320
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
327th Glider Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
18 January 1945
Place of death
Near Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
I 6 8

Immediate family

Members
James V. Gregory (father)
Dora L. (Brown) Gregory (mother)
John Gregory (half-brother)
Raymond Gregory (half-brother)
Walter Gregory (half-brother)
Erma M. Gregory (sister)
Beulah Gregory (sister)
Paul P. Gregory (brother)
Oliver C. Gregory (brother)
Ione R. Gregory (sister)
Anna L. Gregory (sister)
Jane Gregory (sister)
Reva M. (Barrickman) Gregory (wife)

More information

Pvt Willie B. Gregory was a truck driver in Akron, Ohio.

He enlisted in Clarksburg, West Virginia on 2 April 1943 and was sent overseas in October 1943.

Pvt Gregory was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.findagrave.com - Toots, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, The Akron Beacon Journal - 6 April 1945