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Personal info

Full name
PHILLIPS, Edward Lee Jr
Date of birth
5 February 1921
Age
24
Place of birth
Pershing, Osage County, Oklahoma
Hometown
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Military service

Service number
38181971
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
422nd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 April 1945
Place of death
Leipzig, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Edward L. Phillips (father)
Maud Phillips (mother)
Charles D. Phillips (brother)
Robert L. Phillips (brother)
Pearl M. Phillips (sister)

More information

Pvt Edward L. Phillips Jr. worked in transportation before he enlisted on 12 August 1942 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Pvt Phillips was taken prisoner of war in the vicinity of Schlausenbach, Germany on 16 December 1944.

He died in the POW Hospital at Wahren-Leipzig. Investigation on 14 July 1948 revealed that according to cemetery records he was interred in the East Cemetery at Leipzig-Pegau on 17 April 1945 and disinterred by an American Search and Recovery Team on 29 June 1945. Attempts to associate unknowns recovered from the location, were all negative.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, http://aad.archives.gov, IDPF of George J.Bingham

Photo source: www.findagrave.com