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Personal info

Full name
BROOKS, Leonard Rice
Date of birth
5 September 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Baltimore, Maryland
Hometown
Baltimore County, Maryland

Military service

Service number
13069286
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Rifleman
Unit
HQ Company,
2nd Battalion,
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 March 1945
Place of death
Drop Zone W
75 miles northeast of Flüren, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
C 11 16

Immediate family

Members
Walter B. Brooks Jr. (father)
Marian L. (Rice) Brooks (mother)
Walter B. Brooks III (half-brother)
Louise Brooks (half-sister)
Mary E. (Barbary) Brooks (wife)

More information

Pfc Leonard R. Brooks attended college and was a metal worker.

He enlisted in Baltimore, Maryland on 9 February 1942.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, John T. Gerlosky, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.specialforcesroh.com,
http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/507/507_honor.html, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Enlistment Records / 17th Airborne Historical Report of Operation Varsity, Book: The Last Drop, Operation Varsity March 24-25, 1945, by Stephen L. Wright, page 304

Photo source: Peter Schouteten