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Personal info

Full name
PERKINS, John Leonard
Date of birth
14 May 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Albany, Albany County, New York
Hometown
Guilderland, Albany County, New York

Military service

Service number
O1015339
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Tank Commander
Unit
B Company,
47th Tank Battalion,
14th Armored Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 January 1945
Place of death
Hatten, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 2 61

Immediate family

Members
John A. Perkins (father)
Katharine (Leonard) Perkins (mother)
Allen D. Perkins (brother)
Robert W. Perkins (brother)
Shirley (Chalmers) Perkins (wife)
Katharine Perkins (daughter)

More information

1st Lt John L. Perkins attended the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) for two years and was a retail manager.

He volunteered for the Army of the United States in Albany, New York on 10 January 1942 and had been overseas since October 1944.

Lt Perkins was killed after his tank had been hit and set afire and he had climbed onto the rear deck to attempt to extinguish the flames.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Milligan Mickles Family Tree, www.findagrave.com, http://14thad.org
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy / D C, University of California at Los Angeles - 1939