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Personal info

Full name
EVANS, Wilbur Earl
Date of birth
8 June 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana
Hometown
Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
35812811
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
222nd Infantry Regiment,
42nd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 January 1945
Place of death
Kaltenhouse, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 13 24

Immediate family

Members
Charles H. Evans (father)
Nancy A. (Frazier) Evans (mother)
Nova Evans (sister)
Noah F. Evans (brother)
Morris G. Evans (brother)
Lorna J. Evans (sister)
Florence R. Evans (sister)
Alma Evans (sister)

More information

Pfc Wilbur E. Evans attended high school for 4 years before he enlisted in Louisville, Kentucky on 6 January 1944.

He was killed when he was hit by a piece of shrapnel in the head. According to witnesses he probably would have lived had he stayed on the ground, but he got up and started running around among the men, moaning and praying for God to let him die. He thought he was blind for his cap had slipped over his eyes and he couldn't see. His comrades tried to get him to lay down but he wouldn't listen. He was finally picked off by a German rifleman.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Evans Family Tree / Indiana Birth Certificates, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks Bedford Indiana