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Personal info

Full name
SHEFFIELD, Ernest Oceola
Date of birth
21 September 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Vero Beach, Indian River County, Florida
Hometown
Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Florida

Military service

Service number
34680116
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
630th Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 December 1944
Place of death
Bitburg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Oceola K. Sheffield (father)
Annie L. (Barker) Sheffield (mother)
Lettie I. Sheffield (sister)
Fannie J. Sheffield (sister)
Edgar Sheffield (brother)
Frances C. Sheffield (sister)
Oceola K. Sheffield Jr. (brother)
Anna C. (McConneghey) Sheffield (wife)

More information

T/5 Ernest O. Sheffield graduated from Oglethorpe University in 1941 with an AB degree in physical education and was an attendant at a filling station before he enlisted at Fort McPherson, Georgia on 28 December 1942. He was sent overseas in June 1944.

He was taken prisoner on 24 December 1944 and was killed in an allied air raid on Bitburg, Germany the following day.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Sheffield Campbell Hightower Family Tree, www.tankdestroyer.net, www.findagrave.com - Bruce Weirauch, www.newspapers.com - The Miami Herald - 29 July 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Peter Schouteten / Jaap Vermeer, www.ancestry.com - Glenda Geraci