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Personal info

Full name
HARMAN, Joseph Read "Joe"
Date of birth
1918
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Florida
Hometown
Duval County, Florida

Military service

Service number
O-375586
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
501st Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 December 1944
Place of death
Near Longvilly, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
F 8 21

Immediate family

Members
George C. Harman (father)
Elizabeth (Read) Harman (mother)
George Harman (brother)
Elizabeth Harman (sister)
Mary E. (McKinney) Harman (wife)
Kathryn R. Harman (daughter)

More information

1st Lt Joseph R. Harman graduated at Davidson College in North Carolina with the class of 1939.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census / Harman Family Tree, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, http://www.ww2-airborne.us, www.ancestry.com - Davidson College Yearbook 1939