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Personal info

Full name
BIGELOW, Donald Arthur
Date of birth
17 April 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Seattle, King County, Washington
Hometown
Seattle, King County, Washington

Military service

Service number
39212919
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
L Company,
3rd Battalion,
255th Infantry Regiment,
63rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 February 1945
Place of death
Near Bliesbruck, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 8 25

Immediate family

Members
Arthur Bigelow (father)
Esther V. (Tillman) Bigelow (mother)
May V. Bigelow (sister)
Clayton T. Bigelow (brother)
Eugene F. Bigelow (brother)
Gordon C. Bigelow (brother)
Earl Bigelow (brother)
Marian (Bale) Bigelow (wife)
Bonnie L. Bigelow (daughter)

More information

T/Sgt Donald A. Bigelow attended Garfield High School and was a sales clerk before he enlisted in Seattle, Washington on 9 August 1943. He was sent overseas in November 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his stomach.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1930 Census / Washington Birth Records / Washington Marriage Records / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.63rdinfdiv.com, www.findagrave.com - Andy
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy / Usafdo / Jody Silva