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Personal info

Full name
BROOKS, Delmer Merle
Date of birth
9 March 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Big Run, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Somerset County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
42000428
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
B 9 43

Immediate family

Members
Robert M. Brooks (father)
Flora B. (Cresely) Brooks (mother)
Betty Brooks (sister)
Delores Brooks (sister)
Richard Brooks (brother)
Ruthanna Brooks (sister)
Robert Brooks (brother)

More information

Pfc Delmer M. Brooks enlisted in Hoboken, New Jersey on 26 June 1943.

He is remembered at the Fairmount Cemetery in Fairmount, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery 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, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery / Michael Holmes