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MCDONALD, Harold Raymond - Date of
birth
18 September 1923 -
Age
21 -
Place of birth
Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Indiana -
Hometown
Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, Indiana -
Ethnicity
White
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
35548602 -
Rank
Sergeant -
Function
unknown -
Unit
13th Infantry Regiment,
8th Infantry Division
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Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart
Death
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Status
Finding of Death - Date of
death
4 April 1945 - Place of
death
In the vicinity of Siegen, Germany
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
Ernest C. McDonald (father)
Mary L. (Nitcher) McDonald (mother)
Ernest L. McDonald (brother)
Eva C. McDonald (sister)
Carol E. McDonald (sister)
Helen G. McDonald (sister)
Maude P. McDonald (sister)
Ruth I. McDonald (sister)
Mary P. McDonald (sister)
More information
Sgt Harold R. McDonald attended Mishawaka High School and was a welder before he enlisted in Toledo, Ohio on 25 February 1943. He was sent overseas on 5 December 1943.On 13 July 1944, in France, He was reported lightly wounded in action in France on 13 July 1944 and was hospitalized in England.
On 4 April 1945 Sgt Mc Donald's team was holding a roadblock on one of the main roads to Siegen, Germany. At 5 pm, five enemy tanks attacked the roadblock and overran it. During the fight Sgt Mc Donald was severely wounded on both his legs. His team was taken prisonner and the last they saw from Sgt McDonald was that he was bandaged by a German medical aidman.
Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.ancestry.com, www.findagrave.com, www.Newspapers.com
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.findagrave.com - soilsister