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Personal info

Full name
MC CLESKEY, Jefferson Benson
Date of birth
16 January 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Texas
Hometown
Stanislaus County, California

Military service

Service number
39727409
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 3 12

Immediate family

Members
Henry H. Mc Cleskey (father)
Nannie H. (Wheeler) Mc Cleskey (mother)
Mack H. Mc Cleskey (brother
Hazel H. Mc Cleskey (sister)
Dewey E. Mc Cleskey (brother)
Elvey I. Mc Cleskey (sister)
Henry H. Mc Cleskey Jr. (brother)
Opal F. Mc Cleskey (sister)

More information

Pvt J. B. Mc Cleskey attended Eastland High School and worked on a farm.

He enlisted in Los Angeles, California on 21 March 1944.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, 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 / Wheeler Eastman Anderson Family Tree / California, Prison and Correctional Records, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Heroes of Texas Memorial