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KOONTZ, Chester A - Date of
birth
28 February 1915 -
Age
29 - Place of
birth
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio -
Hometown
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
35878263 -
Rank
Private -
Function
unknown -
Unit
317th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
-
Awards
Purple Heart
Death
-
Status
Killed in Action - Date of
death
18 September 1944 - Place of
death
Near Pont-à-Mousson, France
Grave
-
Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
| Plot | Row | Grave |
|---|---|---|
| C | 10 | 21 |
Immediate family
-
Members
James C. Koontz (father)
Ethel S. Koontz (mother)
Marvin J. Koontz (brother)
Tipton W. Koontz (brother)
Gwendolyn (Punchess) Koontz (wife)
More information
Pvt Chester A. Koontz was a tool sharpener before he enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 16 October 1943.
Source of information: Leo Minne, Kathy McDermott, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record, www.80thDivision.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Dayton Daily News - 22 October 1944
Unit records
- ABBE, Clayton Wesley
- ABERNATHY, Marcel Ivis
- ABRAMSKI, Eddie John
- ACKERMAN, Leon Robert
- AHLGRAN, Curtiss W
- ALBERTSON, John David III
- ALBRIGHT, Arthur W
- ALDERSON, Richard James
- ALDRIDGE, Durwood
- ALLEN, Leon Lester
- ALLISON, Scott Frank
- ANDERSON, Glenn D
- ANDERSON, Paul Francis
- ANUSKIEWICZ, Vincent Carl
- ARCHAMBEAU, Louis J
- ARGENZIANO, Joseph J Di Andrea
- ARMSTRONG, Robert L
- ARON, Jerome Martin
- ASKREN, Charles W
- ATHANASON, Mike A
- AUGELLO, Joseph
- BABCOCK, Richard A
- BACON, Fredrick Owen
- BAILEY, Golden T
- BAKER, Daniel
- BAKER, Edward T
- BALDWIN, Ewell
- BANDY, James P
- BARANSKY, Daniel Paul
- BARKER, James Frank
- BARKSDALE, Willard Carter
- BARNHILL, Mitchell McCoy
- BECKER, Elmer Jacob
- BELCHER, Ray Velton
- BELLOCQ, Paul Philip
- BELTZ, Reinaldo W
- BENNETT, Floyd J
- BENTLEY, William Davant
- BERTINE, Wilbur Marchman
- BETANCOURT, Ismael
- BETLER, Bernard O
- BICKEL, William Evan
- BIERLY, James Leroy "Mac"
- BILGER, Walter
- BLACK, George E
- BLAIR, James Dana
- BLEDSOE, Leva Edward
- BOLUS, Edward Leroy
- BORRAZZO, Benedict
- BOST, Ray
- BOUTIN, Joseph Paul Emile
- BOYDSTUN, William James "WJ"
- BOYLE, John Edward Jr
- BRAUN, Murray David
- BREWER, Henry Harlyn
- BRILLON, Leon H
- BROWN, Marvin Louis
- BRUNO, Peter A
- BRUNS, Norbert William
- BRYANT, Lester Leroy
- BRYANT, Otis W
- BUCKLEY, Robert S
- BURGESS, Francis Lionel
- BURGETT, Marcus Cornman
- BURKS, Jack Sheldon
- BUSHKO, Pete
- BUZZARD, Marvin T
- BYRD, Homer Ellis
- CALDWELL, Ralph H
- CALHOUN, Auburn
- CAMPBELL, Jack Lesly Sr
- CANTU, Magdaleno
- CAREY, Alan P
- CARLSON, Paul John Francis
- CARPER, Charles L
- CARTER, Rufus Stanton
- CASSION, Joseph P
- CASTORENA, Pedro Ybarra "Pete"
- CATERINO, Joseph
- COCHRAN, Michael Stephen
- COCHRANE, Joseph C
- COLLETTE, Maurice Kirby
- COLLINS, Jessy Kenneth
- COLUMBUS, Michael J
- CONCINI, John Raymond
- CONNOR, Bill
- COOK, Harold Austin "Archie"
- COX, Benjamin Franklin
- CROSS, Edward
- CROTHERS, Robert S
- DAILEY, Claude Emerson
- DANDURAND, Donald Thomas
- DAPALDO, Philip
- DE FOUR, Wilfred J
- DE LA CRUZ, Juan
- DE WALT, Elwood Richard
- DELUCA, Albert Peter
- DENNIS, Bassel T
- DENNIS, Pershing F
- DENNY, Reuben Burch
- DERR, Paul Arlington
- DEWEESE, Pierce Armistas
- DICKINSON, Leonard E
- DIKEMAN, Garfield Arthur
- DIXON, Harry J
- DOBOSKI, Ernest
- DODD, William Earl
- DOVER, Roy Lee
- DREES, George Edward
- DREISBACH, Willard Gail
- DUBRUSKI, John Joseph
- DUNCAN, James G
- DUNFORD, Galvin H
- DURHAM, William Clark
- DUVALL, Wyatt Cleveland
- EBEL, Joseph Junior
- ECKHART, George Paul
- EDDY, Milton B
- ELLIS, Cecil Dorman
- ELSAESSER, Edwin L
- ERSKINE, John Neil
- EYCHNER, Harley S
- FARBER, Ronald Woodrow
- FEEBECK, Robert A
- FENCIK, Michael
- FENNER, Eddy Vernon
- FENTON, Paul Raymond
- FERGUSON, Erle J
- FINN, John E
- FISHER, Clayton Earl
- FLICK, John A
- FLINT, Lyle Henry
- FOHL, Harry Albert
- FOLLER, Franklin Hopper
- FORD, Henry Thomas
- FORSTER, Richard Lloyd "Dick"
- FORSYTH, William Frank "Billy"
- FOX, Dewey F Jr
- FRANZ, Alton Earl
- FRAPPART, William A
- FREDMAN, Harry
- FRENCH, William K
- FUCHS, William T
- FUEL, John Nelson
- FULLER, Merritt Clinton
- GALL, Gerhard John
- GARZA, Gaspar Garcia
- GATHAGAN, Lee Hayes
- GEIMER, Jerome Herman
- GEISICK, Daniel
- GELHAAR, Howard Albert
- GILLIS, John Adam
- GLADDEN, William H Jr
- GLEM, Elden Naurice
- GLICK, Roy William
- GOAD, James Calvin
- GOLDSTRAW, William Henry Jr
- GONZALEZ, Jess
- GOOLSBY, Jack
- GRAHAM, Joseph Alvin
- GRAHAM, Walter Edmond
- GREENE, John Edward
- GREGOVICH, John William
- GRELLE, Forrest B Jr
- GRIFFIN, Lawrence
- GRUBBS, William Leroy
- GRUHN, Horst R
- HALL, Gordon Warren
- HALLQUIST, Leonard F
- HALSETH, Howard
- HAMPTON, Charles Edward
- HANNEMAN, Ignatius W
- HARDING, Lewis D
- HARJU, Reino E
- HARLAN, Stanley Valentine
- HARLOW, William Lailer
- HARRIS, Daniel Webster
- HARRIS, Oren C
- HARRISON, Waple Elmster
- HAYES, Chancy M Jr
- HAYES, Charles Jay
- HEFFNER, James Kenneth
- HEGE, William Haddon
- HEGER, Wilton E
- HEMING, Albert B
- HENDERSON, Gordon
- HERBST, Harold Carl
- HERMAN, Leslie Wyatt
- HERPEL, William Frederick
- HEYWOOD, William Jenings
- HIGDON, Joseph Owen
- HIMES, Thomas Forest
- HITCHCOCK, Melvin Roy
- HIXSON, Robert
- HOFFMAN, Bryson McLain
- HOLDERBAUM, Frederick
- HOLLIDAY, Stanley Walter
- HOMILLER, Earl Maurice
- HONAKER, Herman Rhodes
- HOOD, William Fyfe Jr
- HOOFTALLEN, Perry James
- HOPKINS, Lewis Terry
- HOREMIAN, Arnold Aram
- HORNER, Robert Benjamin
- HORTON, Richard Wiese
- HOUCHENS, Sellus
- HOUSTON, Beulon Calvin
- HOWE, George Robert
- HOWELL, Edward Francis
- HUMFELD, Julius W
- HUMPHRIES, Hubert Lee
- HUNT, Willard Elsworth
- HUTCHERSON, Bernard Owen
- IVANOSKI, Edward Leopold
- IVIE, Delbert Paul
- JAMES, John W
- JAWORSKI, Edward F
- JEFFERS, Thomas P
- JOHNSON, Fred C
- JOHNSON, Henry William
- JOHNSON, William A
- JOHNSON, William N
- JONES, Frank M
- JONES, J. D. "Jake"
- JONES, Minor W
- JONES, Paul E
- JOWETT, Edward Henry
- JUNK, Robert L
- KADISON, Saul B
- KAMIN, Leroy Charles
- KASZELLKUS, Heinz V
- KATZ, David H
- KEEHNER, Robert R
- KEEN, Joseph Parker
- KELLEY, Fred Underwood Sr
- KELLY, Charles Robert
- KENNEDY, Walter T
- KERRIGAN, James R
- KIFER, Glenn G
- KING, Lonnie Curtis
- KINTZER, Robert Miller
- KIRKLAND, J. C.
- KIRKPATRICK, Donald L
- KIRSCH, Arthur
- KLEIER, Novil Mark
- KNICKMEYER, George Frederick
- KOEPSEL, Milton Leslie
- KOONTZ, Chester A
- KOPPAL, George
- KREMPLEY, Andrew S
- KRILEY, Bernard J
- KUHN, Henry Martin
- LALLY, John Francis
- LALLY, Thomas P III
- LAMBERT, Donald E
- LARSEN, Virgil T
- LARUE, Egbert Roy
- LATON, Claude Franklin
- LATTANZIO, Cosmo
- LAZIO, Anton Peter
- LECHER, Frederick T
- LEE, Walter J
- LEMIRE, Lionel Joseph
- LEMKEY, James C. Henry
- LEONHARDT, Bain Clay
- LETOURNEAU, Wilfred J
- LEVINE, Philip
- LIDWIN, Philip Thomas
- LILLYROOT, Clifford Seldon
- LOGSDON, William C
- LONG, Robert Leon
- LOOPER, James Arthur
- LOOSER, Alton John Sr
- LORENTZEN, Gordon Henry
- LOVE, Clyde Columbus
- LOWDEN, Charles R
- LUTZ, Howard Frederick
- LYNCH, Charles W
- LYONNAIS, Donat C
- MAILLIARD, Eugene Frances
- MALEK, Robert Henry
- MANGAN, Howard F
- MANLEY, Lloyd A
- MANN, Thomas R Jr
- MARDIS, Reginald C
- MARTIN, John P Jr
- MARTINEZ, Raymond Torres
- MARTINEZ, Robert Pablo
- MARX, Sylvestor J
- MATHEWS, William Randall
- MAYER, Louis
- MC ALPIN, Virgil R "Mac"
- MC CRAW, John Hampton
- MCCONNELL, George Gerking
- MCDONALD, Donald R
- MCKNIGHT, Eugene Gail
- MCNAMARA, Harold A
- MERRILL, James Joaquin
- MESSINA, William A
- MEYER, Richard Burgess
- MIHALSKY, Andrew
- MIKE, Charles David
- MIKLOS, Louis John
- MILLER, Ira T
- MILLER, Jere A
- MILLER, John H
- MILLIMAN, Robert Amhurst
- MOBLEY, Louie L
- MOEHLICH, Joseph D
- MONDAY, Kenneth Edward
- MOORE, Herbert E
- MOORE, Ward Jr
- MOORS, Joseph Anthony
- MORGAN, William Arthur "Billy"
- MORRIS, Henry Robert
- MORRISON, George S Jr
- MORRISON, William J
- MORTON, Horace Edward
- MOSES, Maurice Frederick
- MUENSTERMAN, Andrew George
- MUGGLI, Roger James
- MULLER, Joseph Jr
- MUNYON, Orville Carroll
- MURFITT, Guy La Vern
- MURPHY, Joseph Donald
- NACHAND, William Edward
- NEAL, Carl
- NEWKIRK, Roger F
- NOWAKOWSKI, Leonard Jerom
- NOWLIN, Le Roy T
- O'NEAL, William L
- O'NEILL, Francis Charles
- OLESKI, Walter S
- OSIVNIK, Carl I
- OWEN, Woodrow
- PADEN, Thomas H
- PADILLA, Albert C
- PAONE, Anthony J Jr
- PARRISH, Virgil David
- PATTEN, Richard Gladstone
- PAVY, William Kenneth
- PAYTON, Clarence Wyley
- PEARL, Elmer Joseph
- PECYNSKI, Maxmillian
- PENLINGTON, Robert Thomas
- PETERS, Victor
- PHEMISTER, Rois B
- PIEJKO, John F
- PIEKARSKI, Chester Alexander
- PITTMAN, John Bufford
- PORTER, Philip Wayne
- POTRYKUS, Eugene Thomas
- PRICE, Ernest
- QUINN, Charles Edwin
- QUINN, John W
- RAFFERTY, Leonard Francis Jr
- RAKOFF, Michael
- RAMSEY, Thomas Bryant
- RANK, Joseph H
- RAPINO, James Anthony
- RAUCH, Carroll Burke
- REEDER, Virgil Lee
- REILLY, Eugene William
- RENAUD, Joseph W
- REYNOLDS, William E "Billy"
- RHODES, Edward E
- RICE, Joseph R
- RICHMOND, Hugh G
- ROBERTS, Edward Stanley
- ROBINSON, Russell King Jr
- ROBINSON, William Joseph
- RODDY, James Franklin
- ROMIG, Clarence Morris
- ROSENBERGER, Hershel Wayne
- ROUNDS, Walter George
- ROWBERG, Leland Rolley
- RUSZAVICK, Joseph R
- RUTLEDGE, Sam W
- RUZICH, Tony Jr
- RYCHTER, Andrew
- SAKS, Harold Paul
- SAMPSON, Bruno E
- SANDERS, Richard
- SASSER, James M
- SAVAGE, Leslie Evans
- SAYRE, Jack Francis
- SCHAEFER, Wilbur L
- SCHMIDT, Arthur Harry
- SCHMITZ, August Mathew
- SCHRECKER, Carl Henry
- SCHWARTZ, John S
- SCHWINABART, James Francis
- SCOPPETTUOLO, James "V"
- SCULLIN, Harry Simon
- SEHLMEYER, August W
- SEMKO, George
- SHAFER, Vincent H
- SHEPPARD, Chester Eugene
- SHIELS, Edward J
- SIMCOX, Charles Franklin
- SIMMONS, William Barton Jr
- SIMPSON, Lewis E
- SINES, Alfred L
- SISSON, Marshall H
- SLY, Warren B
- SMITH, Harold Edward
- SMITH, Marion A
- SMITH, William Lewis Jr
- SOROM, Owen W
- SPARKS, Carl Clyde
- SPEAR, John E "Jack"
- SPENCER, Homer James
- SPOERER, Thomas Ludwig
- SPRADLIN, Elmo W
- SPURGEON, Johnnie H "Buck"
- STEELE, Beryl H
- STEPHENSON, John
- STEPPUTTIS, Harold A
- STEVENS, Burton
- STILLBERGER, Joseph Edward
- STIMART, Rene J
- STOVER, Austin Marco
- STRATTON, William Laurene
- STRAUSS, Edward J
- STROZEWSKI, Henry
- STRUTZ, Robert Charles
- SUMMER, Joseph Thomas
- SUPERINA, Bob
- SUTHERLAND, Charles H
- SUTHERLAND, Earl Rhodes
- SWEENEY, Alexander Patrick
- SWITZER, Lester D
- SZAYBEL, Stephen Andrew "Steve"
- THEMELIS, John C
- THOMAS, Robert J
- THOMAS, Thomas L
- THRASHER, Charles Gilbert
- THRUSH, Earl F
- TILLOTSON, Winston Dalton
- TOMKINSON, Robert F
- TOUMAZOS, John
- TRIPLETT, Harry Andrew
- UARICH, Peter P
- UHEREK, William Lewis
- URBAN, Robert A
- VAN DYKE, Richard Copeland
- VAN HORN, Charles Heinrich Jr
- VANDERHEIDEN, Raymond William "Ray"
- VAUGHAN, William Chester
- VERMILLION, Herbert
- VERRET, Walter S
- VIVELO, Donald G
- VOGRIN, Henry M
- WALKER, Henry Russell
- WALPOLE, Sheldon D
- WALSH, Henry Clay
- WARINNER, Harry R
- WATKINS, Modie D
- WEAVER, James Robert Jr
- WEIR, Rudolph Jr
- WEISENBERGER, Charles Anthony
- WEISEND, Lee Vernon
- WELLS, John L
- WENDT, Wilson Adelbert
- WENGER, Walter Nolt Jr
- WENTZ, William
- WHITLOW, Alton F
- WHITTEKER, John Hampton
- WILCOX, George H
- WILLARD, Billie Newton
- WILLIAMS, Earl Jr
- WILLIAMS, Harold Courtland
- WILSON, Gerald Raymond
- WILSON, Riley Earl
- WIRTH, Dan D
- WITOWSKI, Raymond F
- WOOD, Pinckney A
- WOODS, Lloyd
- WRIGHT, Samuel Gordon
- XAVIER, Bjarne K
- YOQUELET, Roy Kenneth
- ZAJACZKOWSKI, Chester
- ZAKEM, George Edward
- ZEPPERNICK, Marion C
- ZIDELIS, John Mathew
- ZIELINSKI, Paul A
- ZIEMBA, Anthony J
- ZINN, Walter Raymond
- ZOLLER, Edward J
- ZRINSKY, John