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Personal info

Full name
WILLIAMS, Orval M
Date of birth
1903
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Kansas
Hometown
Squaw Valley, Siskiyou County, California

Military service

Service number
39418599
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
1st Engineer Combat Battalion,
1st Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 November 1944
Place of death
Between Gressenich and Schevenhütte, Hürtgen Forest, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
B 17 39

Immediate family

Members
Doris Williams (wife)

More information

Pvt Orval M. Williams enlisted in Sacramento, California on 3 September 1943.
He attended high school for 1 year and was a painter in maintenance and contruction.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.goc, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record. www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census, www.history.army.mil/html/bookshelves/resmat/ww2list.html

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet