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Personal info

Full name
BAIN, James R "Jimmie"
Date of birth
16 July 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Ohio
Hometown
Vanderburgh County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
O-1061612
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
26th Infantry Regiment,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 November 1944
Place of death
Schevenhütte, Hürtgen Forest, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 5 58

Immediate family

Members
James E. Bain (father)
Mabel V. (Rector) Bain (mother)
Ruth V. Bain (sister)
Viola Bain (wife)

More information

James Bain graduated from Boss High School in 1938 and attended Purdue University for nearly four years. He worked as an engineering department layout man at the Evansville Shipyard.

He originally joined the Medical Corps of Army of the United States in February 1942 at Camp Grant, Illinois. After training at Fort Dix, New Jersey and Camp Haan, California he was commissioned in the Anti-Aircraft Artillery at Camp Davis, North Carolina. He was transferred to the infantry and received additional training at Fort Benning, Georgia and Camp Robinson, Arkansas. He arrived in Europe on 20 September 1944.

His wife served with the Marine Corps Women's Reserve in Cherry Point, North Carolina.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/ww2list.html, The Reporter Times 11 December 1944, www.ancestry.com - family trees

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Evansville Press 11 December 1944 - courtesy of Kathy McDermott