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Personal info

Full name
LAGE, Leon C
Date of birth
28 July 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Gladbrook, Tama County, Iowa
Hometown
Gladbrook, Tama County, Iowa

Military service

Service number
37599369
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
68th Armored Infantry Battalion,
14th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 March 1945
Place of death
Kapsweyer, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 29 64

Immediate family

Members
Frederick A. Lage (father)
Katherine M. (Storjohann) Lage (mother)
Lyle W. Lage (brother)
Melissa A. (Stauffer) Lage (wife)
Alan K. Lage (son)

More information

Pfc Leon C. Lage graduated from Gledbrook High School and worked on a farm before he enlisted at Fort Snelling, Minnesota on 18 July 1944.

He was married to Melissa Stauffer on 30 January 1944. She just had given birth to their son and was still in hosptial when she received the telegram from the War Department, saying het husband had been killed in action.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Engel Family Tree, www.findagrave.com - Anonymous, http://14thad.org
Photo source: www.newspapers.com - The Waterloo Daily Courier 3 April 1945