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Personal info

Full name
WILBANKS, James Neely
Date of birth
6 May 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Walnut, Tippah County, Mississippi
Hometown
Shelby County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
34508637
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
633rd Quartermaster Laundry Company
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of the Julia Mine, Eygelshoven, The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
C 9 22

Immediate family

Members
E. L. Wilbanks (father)
Elnora (Stone) Wilbanks (mother)
Charles L. Wilbanks (brother)
Elnora (Stone) Wilbanks (wife)

More information

T/5 James N. Wilbanks graduated from Walnut High School before he enlisted on 6 February 1943. He was sent overseas in December 1943.

During a German arial attack on a messhall in the area of the Julia Mine, seventeen servicemen and an employee of the mine were killed.

T/5 Wilbanks is commemorated on a Remembrance Plaque in Eygelshoven, The Netherlands.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.findagrave.com, Tom Childers, http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/archive/index.php?t-5429.html, WWII Draft Cards

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Hans Wijnands, Ben Savelkoul