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Personal info

Full name
KENNEDY, Delbert Franklin
Date of birth
15 December 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Rendville, Perry County, Ohio
Hometown
Muskingum County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35240095
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
273rd Infantry Regiment,
69th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 February 1945
Place of death
Lindenweg
Miescheid, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
C 11 39

Immediate family

Members
John H. Kennedy (father)
Lillian (Goins) Kennedy (mother)
Naomi Kennedy (sister)

More information

Pfvt Delbert F. Kennedy enlisted at Fort Hayes, Ohio on 22 August 1944.

On the evening of 22 February 1945 the farm where the 3rd Platoon of B Company had found shelter, blew up, due to the detonation of a shaped charge, called a "Beehive". At that moment, 58 people were in the building. 51 of them were killed.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Carla Mans, http://www.shoreweb.com/cindy/miescheid.htm, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census

Photo source: Tom Verheijden, Peter Schouteten