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Personal info

Full name
HARVEY, Thomas D
Date of birth
1923
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Michigan
Hometown
Wayne County, Michigan

Military service

Service number
16043059
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
N 15 3

Immediate family

Members
John L. Harvey (father)
Nellie (Flynn) Harvey (mother)
Jack Harvey (brother)
George L. Harvey (brother)
Dorathy E. Harvey (sister)
William E. Harvey (brother)
Jeanne I. Harvey (wife)
Gayle E. Harvey (daughter)

More information

Thomas D. Harvey graduated from Cass High School in Detroit with the class of 1942.

He volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in Detroit, Michigan on 18 December 1941. He later volunteered for the paratroopers. He received training at Fort Benning, Georgia; Camp Forrest, Tennessee; and Fort Bragg North Carolina. He had been overseas since July 1944.

He left behind a 11 months old daughter, Gayle Eleanor. At the age of 20 months she died of tubercular meningitis

Source of information: www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Family Trees, www.newspapers.com - The Dunkirk Evening Observer, The Star Press Muncie, Indiana, Muncie Evening Press Muncie, Indiana

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, The Star Press Muncie, Indiana - 16 April 1945