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NAGLE, Carl James - Date of
birth
5 October 1909 -
Age
35 - Place of
birth
Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania -
Hometown
Wadsworth, Medina County, Ohio
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
35406257 -
Rank
Private -
Function
unknown -
Unit
D Battery,
634th Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Automatic Weapons) Battalion
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Awards
unknown
Death
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Status
Finding of Death - Date of
death
8 April 1945 - Place of
death
Wahren-Leipzig, Germany
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
Charles J. Nagle (father)
Maude (Brooks) Nagle (mother)
Donald Nagle (brother)
Dorothy Nagle (sister)
Maude Nagle (sister)
Robert B. Nagle (brother)
Charlotte Nagle (sister)
More information
Pvt Carl J. Nagle was a coffee salesman before he enlisted at Fort Hayes, Ohio on 7 June 1942. After his basic training he was first sent to Iceland.He was taken prisoner in the Losheim Gap on the Belgian-German border when it was overrun by the German Army and sent to Stalag IV-F in Hartmannsdorf, Germany.
He died in the POW hospital of Waheren-Leipzig. Investigation on 14 July 1948 revealed that according to cemetery records he was interred in the East Cemetery at Leipzig-Pegau on 17 April 1945 and exhumed by an American search and recovery team on 29 June 1945.
Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Cards / Miville Family Tree, IDPF of George J. Bingham
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Misty / Patti Johnson