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Personal info

Full name
FAGAN, Philip John
Date of birth
23 August 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Muscatine County, Iowa
Hometown
Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
O-1013068
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ & HQ Company,
55th Armored Infantry Battalion,
11th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
14 January 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Bertogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 7 18

Immediate family

Members
Philip J. Fagan (father)
Grace E. (Fuller) Fagan (mother)
Thomas J. Fagan (brother)
Margaret A. Fagan (sister)
Dorothy Fagan (sister)
Mary M. (Shuey) Fagan (wife)
Mary S. Fagan (daughter)

More information

1st Lt Philip J. Fagan graduated from St Mathia High School in 1936 and was employed at National Cash Register Company in Washington, D.C.

He entered service on 14 November 1941.

Lt Fagan is remembered at Saint Mary's Cemetery in Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa with a memorial marker.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1920/1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men 1940-1947 / Iowa WWII Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries 1947-1959, http://www.11tharmoreddivision.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - nepper, www.newspapers.com - Des Moines Tribune 30 January 1945, www.findagrave.com - Rick