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Personal info

Full name
JORGENSEN, Forrest C
Date of birth
1921
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Bluff Point, Yates County, New York
Hometown
Bluff Point, Yates County, New York

Military service

Service number
32584832
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
47th Tank Battalion,
14th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
13 February 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 20 34

Immediate family

Members
Alfred Jorgensen (father)
Luella P. Jorgensen (mother)
Elsa Jorgensen (sister)
Parker Jorgensen (brother)
Leland Jorgensen (brother)
Eleanor Jorgensen (sister)
Robert Jorgensen (brother)

More information

T/5 Forrest C. Jorgensen attended high school for two years and was in the trucking business with Howard Williams before he enlisted in Rochester, New York on 2 December 1942. He was sent overseas in November 1944.
He died in a German hospital after he was reported missing in action on the same day.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record / WWII Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, www.findagrave.com, http://14thad.org, www.newspapers.com – Democrat and Chronicle New York 10 July 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy