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Personal info

Full name
ALBERT, Adam
Date of birth
19 November 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Crook, Logan County, Colorado
Hometown
Fort Morgan, Morgan County, Colorado

Military service

Service number
37707443
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
135th Engineer Combat Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
28 March 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 21 29

Immediate family

Members
Adam Albert (father)
Molly (Reinhardt) Albert (mother)
Alexander Albert (brother)
Katherine Albert (sister)
Anna E. Albert (sister)
Henry Albert (brother)
Phillip Albert (brother)
Bertha Albert (sister)
John D. Albert (brother)
Clarence W. Albert (brother)

More information

Pfc Adam Albert attended high school in Fort Morgan for three years and had been employed on a farm before he enlisted in Denver, Colorado on 30 November 1943.

He was killed by shell fragments to his head and chest.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Zimmerman Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton
Photo source: www.abc.gov, www.newspapers.com - Scottsbluff Daily Star-Herald -18 April 1945