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Personal info

Full name
GRASS, Leo Lloyd
Date of birth
8 November 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa
Hometown
Aladdin, Crook County, Wyoming

Military service

Service number
37361889
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 January 1945
Place of death
Near Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
F 6 3

Immediate family

Members
John E. Grass (father)
Nettie D. (Groves) Grass (mother)

More information

Pvt Leo L. Grass worked on a farm before he enlisted at Fort Logan, Colorado on 23 March 1944.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Grand-Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.findagrave.com – Carl Steiger, www.ww2-airborne.us

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Sioux City Journal