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Personal info

Full name
ARDEUNE, Vance Maurice
Date of birth
2 January 1912
Age
33
Place of birth
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
Hometown
King County, Washington

Military service

Service number
39092914
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 April 1945
Place of death
Kassel, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
D 11 27

Immediate family

Members
Margaret F. (Wicksell) Ardeune (mother)

More information

Vance M. Ardeune enlisted at Presidio of Monterey in California on 13 March 1942.

His mother, Margaret Fanny Wicksell was born in Sweden. She was a teacher at a public school in Minnesota and was widowed in 1930.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, Glenn Swanson, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Fred