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Personal info

Full name
WATTS, I V
Date of birth
31 March 1922
Age
23
Place of birth
San Augustine County, Texas
Hometown
Chireno, Nacogdoches County, Texas
Ethnicity
African American

Military service

Service number
38304482
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
662nd Quartermaster Truck Company
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 April 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Richard Watts (father)
Mary (Lockett) Watts (mother)

More information

I. V. Watts was a sharecropper.

He enlisted on 2 December 1942 in Tyler, Texas.

Source of information: FOHF, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men

Photo source: FOHF