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Personal info

Full name
DAY, Joseph C
Date of birth
1917
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Kentucky
Hometown
Middletown, Butler County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
6662403
Rank
First Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
30th Infantry Regiment,
3rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
3 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Sauceray-St. Dié, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 33 10

Immediate family

Members
Andrew C. Day (father)
Cassie M. (Lovely) Day (mother)
Robert Middaugh (halfbrother)

More information

1st Sgt Joseph C. Day attended college for two years and was employed at the Frick - Reid Supply Corp. before he joined the Regular Army on 5 September 1939.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in the abdomen.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Cards, History 3rd Infantry Division WWII
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy