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Personal info

Full name
ASKREN, Charles W
Date of birth
1922
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Ohio
Hometown
Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35836721
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
317th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
10 December 1944
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 34 12

Immediate family

Members
John W. Askren (father)
Violet M. (Hessler) Askren (mother)
Bernard Wieland (stepfather)
Mary H. Askren (wife)

More information

Pvt Charles W. Askern graduated Sandusky High School and was a craneman before he enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 29 April 1944.
He was reported seriously wounded in action and was evacuated to a hospital on 25 November. At that time his unit was engaged in the fighting southeast of Faulquemont, France.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record, www.80thdivision.com

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