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Personal info

Full name
GODDARD, Merrill Jackson
Date of birth
15 November 1920
Age
23
Place of birth
Manchester, Meriwether County, Georgia
Hometown
Spalding County, Georgia

Military service

Service number
14140023
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
1st Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
14 November 1944
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Daniel E. Goddard (father)
Annie L. (Duke) Goddard (mother)
Frances Goddard (sister)
Ruth G. Goddard (sister)
Lois Goddard (wife)

More information

Pfc Merrill J. Goddard attended high school for four years and was employed at Thomaston Cotton Mills - Griffin Division.
He volunteered for the US Army in Fort McPherson Atlanta, Georgia on 15 October 1942.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - A Grateful American, www.findagrave.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php, WWII Draft Card
Photo source: Peter Schouteten