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Personal info

Full name
ALLGEIER, Albert George
Date of birth
10 July 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Erie County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33408128
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
B Battery,
474th Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Automatic Weapons) Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 April 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Nordhausen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
H 1 13

Immediate family

Members
Albert J. Allgeier (father)
Isabell (Hess) Allgeier (mother)
James W. Allgeier (brother)
Robert J. Allgeier (brother)
Margaret M. Allgeier (sister)
Marilyn A. (Ganzer) Allgeier (wife)
Albert R. Allgeier (son)

More information

Sgt Albert G. Allgeier graduated from Erie Technical High School and was employed at the Erie Forge and Steel Company.

He enlisted on 19 December 1942 in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was sent overseas in January,1944.

On the afternoon of 16 April 1945 three men of B Battery, Capt Gordon Potter, his driver Sgt Albert Allgeier and Pfc William Ousley, were on their way from B Battery to HQ Battery in a jeep when they were ambushed. They incurred multiple bullet wounds and their fate was not known for the Battery until 3 May.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Sheree Dowdle, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - OneWorldTree / Veteran Compensation Application File, History of the 474th Anti-Aircraft Art. Bat.

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Erie Times 5 September 1940 by Gemcity Sixtyeight