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Personal info

Full name
DEAN, Paul H
Date of birth
20 March 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Ohio
Hometown
Marion County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
O-456395
Rank
Captain
Function
Company Commander
Unit
D Company,
2nd Battalion,
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

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

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 10 55

Immediate family

Members
Franklin E. Dean (father)
Birdie L. (Stanberry) Dean (mother)
Marion A. Dean (brother)
Betty E. Dean (sister)
Warren D. Dean (brother)
Lucille M. Dean (sister)
Naomi R. Dean (sister)

More information

Capt Paul H. Dean graduated from Philo High School in 1938.

He joined the Regular Army in 1938 at Fort Hayes and served as a clerk for two years at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana. In November 1941 he entered Officer Training at Fort Benning and in February 1942 was commissioned a second lieutenant.

Capt Dean was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

On one of the photos, his brother Pfc Floyd Dean and his brother-in-law, Sgt Vernon Eddy, pose at his temporary grave at Grand Failly.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Thomas Daniel Lane Jr Family Tree, http://www.ww2-airborne.us, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery, http://www.ww2-airborne.us, The Times Recorder - 29 May 1942, The Times Recorder - 4 October 1945