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Personal info

Full name
STAMMER, Ralph Leroy
Date of birth
31 October 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Iowa
Hometown
Dickinson County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
37596393
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
H Company,
3rd Battalion,
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
24 March 1945
Place of death
Flüren, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
K 1 21

Immediate family

Members
George H. Stammer (father)
Edna M. (Dorsey) Stammer (mother)
James Stammer (brother)
Everett Stammer (brother)
Elizabeth Stammer (sister)
Lloyd Stammer (brother)
Mildred Stammer (sister)
Evelyn Stammer (sister)
Irene Stammer (sister)
Harold Stammer (brother)

More information

Ralph Stammer enlisted on 12 June 1944, just after graduating from high school in Spirit Lake. He was sent to Camp Wolters in Texas, where he took 17 weeks training in the infantry, after which he volunteered for the paratroopers. He had five weeks training at Fort Benning, Georgia, where he received his wings on 1 December 1944. He was sent overseas on 26 January 1945.

Source of information: www.ancestry.com - Milford Mail - 12 April 1945 / Spirit Lake Beacon - 12 April 1945 / 1940 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/507/507_honor_st.html

Photo source: Tom Verheijden, Spirit Lake Beacon - 12 April 1945