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Personal info

Full name
SMITH, Leo
Date of birth
15 July 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Boone County, West Virginia
Hometown
Julian, Boone County, West Virginia

Military service

Service number
35200703
Rank
Technician Fourth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ Company,
3rd Battalion,
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
I 2 7

Immediate family

Members
Henry J. Smith (father)
Caldona A. (Meadows) Smith (mother)
Blanche A. Smith (sister)
Leonard P. Smith (brother)
Fanel Smith (brother)
Earnest D. Smith (brother)
George Smith (brother)
Henry J. Smith (brother)
Billy Smith (brother)

More information

T/4 Leo Smith was a miner and before he enlisted in Huntington, West Virginia on 20 January 1941.

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 / Ernest Smith Family Tree / 1930/1940 Census, www.findagrave.com – MAJ Jimmy Cotton, www.ww2-airborne.us

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com – Jonathan Perdue