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Personal info

Full name
CALHOUN, Charles Bernard
Date of birth
13 July 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Ohio
Hometown
Guilford County, North Carolina

Military service

Service number
34431709
Rank
Corporal
Function
Tank Driver
Unit
67th Armored Regiment,
2nd Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 November 1944
Place of death
Loverich-Puffendorf, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
O 11 16

Immediate family

Members
Bernard H. Calhoun (father)
Alma M. (Sheridan) Calhoun (mother)
Lois Calhoun (sister)
Dorothy A. Calhoun (sister)
Betty (Hale) Calhoun (wife)

More information

Cpl Charles B. Calhoun graduated from Greensboro High School, where he was active in football, basketball and track. Hee was employed by the Clegg's bakery

He enlisted at Camp Croft, South Carolina on 19 September 1942 and was sent overseas in February 1943 and served with his unit during the African and Sicilian Campaigns before he participated in the D-Day landing on 6 June 1944.

He is remembered at the Green Hill Cemetery in Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1940 Census, www.findagrave.com - Laurie Goodman Lenz, http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org - After Action Report CCB, Greensboro Daily News, N.C.

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / David Oxford, Greensboro Daily News, N.C.