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Personal info

Full name
GAINES, Thomas Carlton Jr
Date of birth
28 September 1908
Age
36
Place of birth
Pewee Valley, Kentucky
Hometown
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
O1044522
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
5th Infantry Regiment,
71st Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 April 1945
Place of death
Near Coburg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
I 2 8

Immediate family

Members
Thomas C. Gaines (father)
Annie (Wobbe) Gaines (mother)
Dorothy J. Gaines (sister)
Mary P. Gaines (sister)
Nancy H. Gaines (wife)

More information

1st Lt Thomas C. Gaines Jr. enlisted in Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 17 March 1942.
Graduate of Louisville Male High School and the University of Kentucky, he formerly was employed with the Kentucky Lithographing Company of which his father was the president. Lt Gaines had been in the service three years and overseas since January. He was commissioned in antiaircraft at Camp Davis, N.C.

He is memorialized at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1920/1930 Census / WWII Enlistment Record / Headstone and Interment Record / Border Crossing, www.newspapers.com - The Courier-Journal

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Des Philippet, www.newspapers.com - The Courier-Journal