Rank: Private First Class
Unit: A Trp, 2d Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 2d Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, American Campaign Medal, Europe / African / Middle East Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal
Enlisted: 23 November 1944 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Date of birth: 25 October 1924
Hometown: North Carolina
Occupation prior to enlistment: Farm hands, general farms
High School: 1 year of high school
Married: Single, with dependents
Campaign: WWII
Died: 20 February 1945
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Killed in action
Location of fatality: Flaxweiler, Luxembourg
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Place of interment: Luxembourg American Cemetery in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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Place of interment or memorial: Clyde’s Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery in Archers Lodge, North Carolina
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Notes: Killed in action when an enemy panzerfaust shell came through a window he was standing near, 20 February 1945, Wincheringen, Germany, on a raid across the Moselle River from Flaxweiler, Luxembourg.