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Personal info

Full name
BUTTS, Hilan Delma
Date of birth
10 September 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Union County, Kentucky
Hometown
Cook County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
35486613
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
379th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 December 1944
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 50 23

Immediate family

Members
George F. Butts (father)
Flora B. (Roberts) Butts (mother)
Georgia Butts (sister)
Andrew Butts (brother)
John M. Butts (brother)
Verlia Butts (sister)
William T. Butts (brother)
Billy Butts (brother)
Carvel E. Butts (brother)

More information

S/Sgt Hilan D. Butts enlisted in Evansville, Indiana, on 28 July 1942.

He attended high school for 4 years and worked in manufacture of leather products before he enlisted.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
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