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Personal info

Full name
KING, Carl E
Date of birth
5 June 1907
Age
37
Place of birth
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
Hometown
Marion County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
33846050
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
776th Field Artillery Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
5 April 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
G 21 10

Immediate family

Members
James V. King (father)
Marlie P. (Ayers) King (mother)
Virgil A. King (brother)
Viola King (sister)
Thelma King (sister)
John King (brother)
Clarence King (brother)
Sally R. King (wife)
Robert L. King (stepson)

More information

Pfc Carl E. King graduated from Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville. He was employed as the advertising foreman in the composing room of The Tennessean for six years before going to Washington. He worked on the Washington Post for 12 years.

He enlisted at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland on 18 March 1944 and took heavy field artillery training at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. He went overseas in November 1944.

Source of information: Raf Dykmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census / Birth Record, www.newspapers.com - The Indianapolis Star / The Indianapolis News / The Tennessean

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet