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Personal info

Full name
SNIPES, Paul Clarence
Date of birth
22 August 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Mullins, Marion County, South Carolina
Hometown
Mullens, Marion County, South Carolina

Military service

Service number
34842270
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
141st Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 October 1944
Place of death
Échavanne, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 28 15

Immediate family

Members
Robert C. Snipes (father)
Maggie P. (Waller) Snipes (mother)
Robert L. Snipes (brother)
Rufus C. Snipes (brother)
James T. Snipes (brother)
Nona K. S. Snipes (sister)
Georgia M. Snipes (sister)

More information

Pfc Paul C. Snipes graduated from Mullins High School and was a retail manager before he enlisted at Fort Jackson, South Carolina on 30 July 1943. He was sent overseas in February 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his chest.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Draft Cards Young Men / WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Gloria Powers Family Tree, www.findagrave.com – S Curry, www.newspapers.com – Florence Morning News - 1 November 1944 / The Columbia Record - 7 November 1944

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy