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Personal info

Full name
BECRAFT, Walter Green
Date of birth
5 March 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Menifee County, Kentucky
Hometown
Menifee County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
15327406
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
413th Infantry Regiment,
104th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
30 November 1944
Place of death
Inden-Lamersdorf, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
E 5 32

Immediate family

Members
Green I. Becraft (father)
Willie C. (Miles) Becraft (mother)
Oliver W. Becraft (brother)
Dudley W. Becraft (brother)
Irwin W. Becraft (brother)
Willard Becraft (brother)

More information

Pfc Walter G. Becraft was a clerk before he joined the Air Corps of the US Army Reserve at Patterson Field, Ohio on 30 September 1942.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans , Peter Schouteten, Ronald van Beek, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com - Public Member Photos