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Personal info

Full name
HAFFNER, Alvin Ernest
Date of birth
6 December 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
South Dakota
Hometown
Beltrami, Polk County, Minnesota

Military service

Service number
37550629
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
68th Tank Battalion,
6th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
4 January 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
William A. Haffner (father)
Anna C. (Thompson) Haffner (mother)
Florence Haffner (sister)
Eugene Haffner (brother)
Calvin C. Haffner (brother)
William A. Haffner (brother)
Ray E. Haffner (brother)
John H. Haffner (brother)
Lila Haffner (sister)

More information

Alvin E. Haffner enlisted on 18 February 1943.

Pfc Haffner is remembered with a memorial marker at Lakeview Cemetery in Blackduck, Beltrami County, Minnesota.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com, 1940 US Census, Application for Headstone or Marker (US)

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Pattie Schultz