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Personal info

Full name
HARVEY, James J
Date of birth
29 April 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Rocky Hill, Hartford County, Connecticut
Hometown
Hartford County, Connecticut

Military service

Service number
31345754
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
310th Infantry Regiment,
78th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 February 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
F 6 21

Immediate family

Members
Michael J. Harvey (father)
Mary M. Harvey (mother)
Mary T. Harvey (sister)
Doris C. Harvey (sister)
Alice N. Harvey (sister)
Helen M. Harvey (sister)
Edward T. Harvey (brother)
John M. Harvey (brother)

More information

Pfc James J. Harvey Hartford Public High School in 1940. He was an apprentice machinist at the Pratt and Whitney Division of Niles-Bement-Pond.

He enlisted in Hartford, Connecticut on 9 June 1943 and was sent overseas in October 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com – 1930 Census

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Ralph Peeters, Hartford public High School yearbook 1941.