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Personal info

Full name
SCHMITT, Jerome L
Date of birth
3 July 1920
Age
25
Place of birth
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
Hometown
Jeffersontown, Jefferson County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35489255
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
474th Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Automatic Weapons) Battalion
Awards
unknown

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
31 July 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
D 34 25

Immediate family

Members
Louis P. Schmitt (father)
Agnes M. (Boehm) Schmitt (mother)
Laurence Schmitt (brother)
Marie Schmitt (sister)
Francis Schmitt (brother)
Rosaline Schmitt (sister)

More information

Pfc Jerome L. Schmitt was a farmhand.

He enlisted in Louisville, Kentucky on 14 August 1942 and was sent overseas in December 1943.

He drowned. The exact circumstances are unknown.

His brother Francis was killed in action in Korea on 2 September 1951.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card / 1930/1940 Census, www.80thdivision.com
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