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Personal info

Full name
KANE, John J
Date of birth
11 August 1922
Age
23
Place of birth
Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Hampden County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31212503
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
379th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
15 November 1945
Place of death
Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Eugene F. Kane (father)
Hannah J. (Landers) Kane (mother)
Catherine M. Kane (sister)
Eugene F. Kane Jr. (brother)
Mary E. Kane (sister)

More information

John J. Kane graduated from Westfield Trade School and worked the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company.

He enlisted in Springfield, Massachusetts on 26 October 1942.

His brother, Pvt. Eugene Kane, a Bronze Star recipient, was killed in action in Normandy on 15 July 1944 and is listed on the Tables of the Missing at the Normandy American Cemetery

John Kane was declared death one day and one year after he was reported missing in action.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Kathy McDermott, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/vetegb.php?id=1465