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Personal info

Full name
POE, Herbert Arlen
Date of birth
5 May 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
Hometown
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California

Military service

Service number
O1016495
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
743rd Tank Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
28 October 1944
Place of death
Würselen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
A 5 42

Immediate family

Members
Henry Poe (father)
Cora M. (Lyles) Poe (mother)
Elsie Poe (sister)
Ola Poe (sister)
Edgar A. Poe (brother)
Ruby L. (Worlein) Poe (wife)
Arlene L. Poe (daughter)

More information

Herbert Poe graduated from John C. Fremont High School. He was a commercial artist and he was looking forward to a career with Disney before the war.

He enlisted in Los Angeles, California on 5 March 1941.

Lt Poe and three of his crew were wounded when the house in which they bivouacked was hit by an enemy artillery shell.

The crewmen were T/5 Aubrey M. Culledge, Pfc Lloyd P. Larson and Pfc Stanford J. Pleskus. They were evacuated. Lt. Herbert Poe died a day later.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.findagrave.com, http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org - After Action Report 743rd Tank Battalion, S-3 Journal 743rd Tank Battalion

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, 1937 yearbook - John C. Fremont High School - courtesy of Debbie Holloman