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Personal info

Full name
JACOBS, John Gray
Date of birth
5 August 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Riverdale, Weber County, Utah
Hometown
Ogden, Weber County, Utah

Military service

Service number
39916426
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
242nd Infantry Regiment,
42nd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 January 1945
Place of death
Near Strasbourg, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 5 25

Immediate family

Members
Murray K. Jacobs Sr. (father)
Charlotte E. (Baldwin) Jacobs (mother)
Emma Jacobs (sister)
Deseretta R. Jacobs (sister)
Susan Jacobs (sister)
Murray K. Jacobs Jr. (brother)
Grant B. Jacobs (brother)
Wayne C. Jacobs (brother)
Faye A. (Sessions) Jacobs (wife)

More information

Pfc John G. Jacobs attended high school for four years and was a stenographer and typist before he enlisted in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 11 June 1943.

He was taken prisoner of war on 6 January 1945 in France and was killed on the same day. The exact circumstances are unknown.

He is remembered at the Cemetery in Ogden, Weber, Utah.

His brother Murray K. Jacobs Jr. is remembered on the walls of the Missing at the American Military Cemetery of Manilla.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Prisoners of War Data File / Bettenhausen Family Tree, www.findagrave.com – Russell Pickett / Jeff Hall, www.newspapers.com – The Ogden Standard Examiner 12 March 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy / Jeff Hall