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Personal info

Full name
KAPPEL, William J
Date of birth
20 September 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Wisconsin
Hometown
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36709997
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
462nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 April 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Dudendstadt, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
K 18 22

Immediate family

Members
Frank Kappel (father)
Mary (Kurta) Kappel (mother)
Stephen H. Kappel (brother)
Mary Kappel (sister)
Frank Kappel (brother)
John Kappel (brother)
Stella Kappel (sister)
Joseph K. Kappel (brother)
Rudolph Kappel (brother)
Rose Kappel (sister)
Bertha A. Kappel (sister)
Norman Kappel (brother)
Belle (Jurkiewicz) Kappel (wife)
Ronald W. Kappel (son)

More information

Before entering the army November 14, 1942,

Pvt Kappel was employed by the General American Transportation Co. before he enlisted on 14 November 1942.

His wife, shortly before his enlisted, joined the war workers at the Pullman shipyards and on 29 April 1944, she was signaled out because of her faithful service to christen the first LSM (landing ship medium).

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, www.history.army.mil, www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar, www.newspaperarchive.com - Chicago South End Reporter

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / Annette Kappel, www.newspaperarchive.com - Chicago South End Reporter