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Personal info

Full name
ECKERT, Clarence Charles
Date of birth
24 September 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Swatara Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33872368
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 January 1945
Place of death
Longchamps, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 15 23

Immediate family

Members
Charles H. Eckert (father)
Eva (Wengert) Eckert (mother)
Arbel A. Eckert (brother)
Shirley Hilbert (stepsister)

More information

Pvt Eckert graduated from Jonestown High School in 1943.

He enlisted in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on 30 November 1943 and received training at Camp Blanding, Florida. He was graduated as a paratrooper at Fort Benning, Georgia in May 1944.

Source of information: Astrid van Erp, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ww2-airborne.us, www.ancestry.com - Headstone Inscription and Interment Record , www.newspapers.com

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Peter Schouteten, www.newspapers.com - The Daily News 10 January 1947