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Personal info

Full name
MCALPIN, Andrew Jackson
Date of birth
1913
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Mississippi
Hometown
Jefferson County, Texas

Military service

Service number
38562537
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
379th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 35 26

Immediate family

Members
Lula B. (Dewil) McAlpin (wife)
Frank R. McAlpin (son)
Edward L. McAlpin (son)
Margaret E. McAlpin (daughter)
Amy L. McAlpin (daughter

More information

Pvt Andrew J. McAlpin enlisted in Fort Sam Houston, Texas on 26 February 1944.

He was a wholesale manager 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 / 1940 Census / Patricia Ann Wilkinson Family Tree, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
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