Date of birth:

October 11th, 1919 (Kansas City/Kansas USA)

Date of death:

(Riverdale/Kansas USA)

Service number:

20725052

Nationality:

American

Rang/eenheid:

Private 1st Class in 35th Infantry Division

Private First Class, 2nd Battalion, 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division. Fought in Normandy, northern France, Ardennes Offensive, the Rhineland and Midden Germany. Awarded the Bronze Star (USA) and the Ordre National de la Légion d'honneur’ (France)

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Private 1st Class

Unit:

2nd Bat. 137th Inf.Reg. 35th Inf.Div. (2nd Bat. 137th Inf.Reg. 35th Inf.Div. )

Awarded on:

June 16th, 1945

Awarded for bravery at Ossenberg (Germany) where he and a fellow soldier entered the town during a reconnaissance, captured 78 Germans and discovered the positions of enemy tanks and machine gun nests.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awarded on:

March 24th, 2009

This medal was awarded on Sept. 21, 2010 by Congressman Dennis Moore and French Colonel Jean Claude Brejot of the command staff at Leavenworth This was on the same day he left Anwerp in 1945 to leave the war and go home.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

• Photo 1: Barbara Schrader
• Photo 2: Barbara Schrader
• - Newspaper Article.
  - Discharge Paper Army.
  - Citation Bronze Star.