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Personal info

Full name
MAYER, Oscar Dyonisious
Date of birth
6 October 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Haubstadt, Gibson County, Indiana
Hometown
Johnson, Gibson County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
35719145
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
302nd Infantry Regiment,
94th Infantry Division
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
28 March 1945
Place of death
Bad Orb, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 25 44

Immediate family

Members
Dennis F. Mayer (father)
Mary C. (Loehr) Mayer (mother)
Vera R. Mayer (sister)
Leroy F. Mayer (brother)
John J. Mayer (brother)
Henry H. Mayer (brother)
Catherine H. Mayer (sister)
Mathilde M. Mayer (sister)
Anthony E. Mayer (brother)
Elizabeth T. Mayer (sister)
Mary G. Mayer (sister)

More information

Pfc Oscar D. Mayer attended high school for 2 years before he enlisted in Evansville, Indiana on 7 December 1942.

He died as a prisoner of war in Stalag 9B.

He is remembered at the Saints Peter and Paul Cemetery in Haubstadt, Gibson County, Indiana.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record / World War II Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Voelker Sims Family / 1930 Census, www.findagrave.com - Jock a mo fi na ney, http://www.94thinfdiv.com

Photo source: www.ancestry.com - Adler Paul Nicholas