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Personal info

Full name
EMERICK, Ulysses Steele
Date of birth
3 October 1912
Age
32
Place of birth
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California

Military service

Service number
39020948
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
2nd Battalion,
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
3 October 1944
Place of death
Bredeweg-Nieberd, Holland

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
P 16 6

Immediate family

Members
Ulysses Grant Emerick (father)
Delilah May (Franey) Emerick (mother)
Margaret Emerick (sister)
Edith Emerick (sister)
Mary E. Emerick (sister)
Lilian Emerick (sister)
Wayne Emerick (brother)
William Emerick (brother)

More information

Pvt Ulysses S. Emerick enlisted at Fort MacArthur, California on 26 February 1942.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Molenhoek, the Netherlands

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees / 1930 Census / Headstone and Interment Record, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, www.ww2-airborne.us