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CHANEY, Glenn F - Date of
birth
10 April 1925 -
Age
19 - Place of
birth
Indiana -
Hometown
Washington County, Indiana
Personal info
Military service
- Service
number
35707824 -
Rank
Private First Class -
Function
unknown -
Unit
242nd Infantry Regiment,
42nd Infantry Division
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Awards
Bronze Star
Death
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Status
Died non-Battle - Date of
death
24 February 1945 - Place of
death
Leipzig, Germany
Grave
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Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle - Tablets of the Missing
Immediate family
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Members
Albert G. Chaney (father)
Elva I. (Nale) Chaney (mother)
Wilma P. Chaney (sister)
Opal P. Chaney (sister)
Emmerson M. Chaney (brother)
Perry S. Chaney (sister)
More information
Pfc Glenn F. Chaney was a chauffeur before he enlisted in Louisville, Kentucky on 14 August 1943.Pfc Chaney was taken prisoner of war in the vicinity of Rittershoffen-Hatten, France on 9 January 1945.
He died in the POW hospital in Wahren-Leipzig. Investigation on 14 July 1948 revaeled that according to cemetery records he was interred in the East Cemetery in Leipzig-Pegau and disinterred by an American Search and Recovery Team on 29 June 1945. Attempts to associate unknowns recovered from the location, were all negative.
He is remembered at the Crown Hill Cemetery in Salem, Indiana.
Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Myers Family Tree / 1930-1940 Census, IDPF of George J. Bingham
Photo source: Myers Family Tree, Charla K. Perez - Newsletter Editor - National Society Daughters of the American Revolution-Piankeshaw Chapter