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Personal info

Full name
BRENTLINGER, James Edward
Date of birth
9 August 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
Hometown
Jefferson County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35686140
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 November 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 34 25

Immediate family

Members
David L. Brentlinger (father)
Bessie M. (Wright) Brentlinger (mother)
Arthur L. Brentlinger (brother)
Mary E. Brentlinger (sister)
David A. Brentlinger (brother)
Edna P. Brentlinger (brother)
Leotis Brentlinger (brother)
David L. Brentlinger (brother)
Mabel A. Brentlinger (sister)
Geneva A. Brentlinger (sister)
Gladys C. Brentlinger (sister)

More information

Pfc James E. Brentlinger attended High View High School and was employed at the Curtiss-Wright Co.

He enlisted in Louisville, Kentucky on 5 November 1942. He was sent overseas in July 1944.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Limey, France.

His brother Arthur was wounded in action in the knee in Italy and was sent home.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Kathy McDermott, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - A Grateful American, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Family Trees / 1930 Census / Kentucky, Birth Index, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com - The Courier-Journal
Photo source: www.findagrave.com, The Jeffersonian - 23 February 1945