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Personal info

Full name
VAILES, Harold Gordon
Date of birth
August 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Hickman County, Tennessee
Hometown
Carterville, Jasper County, Missouri
Ethnicity
White

Military service

Service number
37723525
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
22nd Infantry Regiment,
4th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 December 1944
Place of death
Hürtgen Forest, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
F 2 8

Immediate family

Members
William N. Vailes (father)
Margaret C. (Gunnells) Vailes (mother)
Clariece M. Vailes (sister)
Violet L. Vailes (sister)
Raymond E. Vailes (brother)
Catherine W. Vailes (sister)
John Vailes (brother)
Paul Vailes (brother)
Leroy Vailes (brother)
Donald Vailes (brother)

More information

Pvt Harold G. Vailes attended Webb City High School and was a truck driver.

He enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on 27 September 1943.

Source of information: Sheri Vailes Wagner, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Sheri Vailes Wagner (great niece), www.ancestry.com - Webb City High School Yearbook 1946

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