Rank and Name, Private Claudie Leon Steele.
Unit/Placed in, 115th Infantry Regiment (1st Battalion, C-Comp.), 29th Infantry Division ”Blue and Grey”.
Claudie is born on 24 July 1924 in Sawyer, Choctaw County, Oklahoma.
Father, Blake Steele.
Mother, Tonnie Lou (Donham) Steele.
Sister(s), Coleene (Steele) Moore.
Brother(s), Delbert Eugene and Charles Steele.
Claudie enlisted the service in Oklahoma with service number # 38406207.
Claudie was KIA in the drive to the Roer River he got into fights with the Germans at Siersdorf on 18 Nov. 1944, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Infantry Badge, Marksman Ship Badge, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Claudie is buried/mentioned at Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial, Margraten, Eijsden-Margraten Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands.
Dit graf is geadopteerd door Dhr. R. M.H. Hensgens.
Thanks to, https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LJL3-25R
Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com
Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.
ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov
Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker
Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/
Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org
POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano
National Historian
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
WordPress en/of Wooncommerce oplossingen, https://www.siteklusjes.nl/
Military Recovery, https://www.dpaa.mil/
