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Personal info

Full name
KREINER, John Jr
Date of birth
26 June 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Baltimore County, Maryland
Hometown
Baltimore County, Maryland

Military service

Service number
33382442
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
141st Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Sauvagney, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 17 61

Immediate family

Members
John Kreiner (father)
Katherine A. (Gausman) Kreiner (mother)
Dorothy R. Kreiner (sister)
Louis E. Kreiner (brother)
Thomas F. Kreiner (brother)
Margaret (Raub) Kreiner (wife)

More information

Pvt John Kreiner enlisted in Baltimore, Maryland on 5 November 1942.

When approaching the little village of Sauvagney, Germans entrenched in the woods fired their machine guns across a meadow at the advancing Americans. Those who remember the day tell of screams across the meadow and medics running to assist the wounded with morphine and bandages. When the fighting ended, two men of E Company were dead.

The village was liberated that day and the villagers staged a formal burial for Kreiner and the other soldier, Pfc Edwin J. Morgan.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Records / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 141aar-June-to-September-1944.pdf, www.findagrave.com - Andy

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, www.honorstates.org, https://danrodricks.com/