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Personal info

Full name
WEINER, Herman
Date of birth
1920
Age
unknown
Place of birth
New York
Hometown
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Religion
Jewish

Military service

Service number
12007015
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
562nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Automatic Weapons) Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
31 March 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
F 15 12

Immediate family

Members
Morris L. Weiner (father)
Rose Weiner (mother)
Joseph Weiner (brother)
Sadie Weiner (sister)
Janet Weiner (sister)
Gloria Weiner (wife)

More information

T/5 Herman Weiner enlisted in Witchell, New York on 1 August 1940.

He was riding in the back of a truck with other soldiers, returning from a passover seder, when a German POW accidentally detonated a mine while working on the road. T/5 Weiner was the only fatality.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, Bard Smith (nephew), www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S., WWII Jewish Servicemen Cards / 1930 census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Des Philippet