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Personal info

Full name
MC LEAN, Ben F
Date of birth
20 January 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Kansas
Hometown
Wichita County, Kansas

Military service

Service number
O-436102
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
2nd Battalion,
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 January 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Flamierge, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 8 45

Immediate family

Members
Benjamin D. Mc Lean (father)
Elizabeth A. (Mabry) Mc Lean (mother)
Julianne D. Mc Lean (sister)

More information

Lt Mc Lean is remembered at the Old Mission Cemetery in Wichita, Kansas.

Source of information: Tom Verheijden, www.ancestry.com - Allen-McAninch-Johnson-White Family Tree / 1930 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us/units/513/513_honor_off.html

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Curtis A. Gadd/Réal Desmarets, www.findagrave.com