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Personal info

Full name
ROGERS, Kenneth Bruce
Date of birth
9 November 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Milestone, Letcher County, Kentucky
Hometown
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35796335
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
104th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 April 1945
Place of death
Schlüchtern, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 10 19

Immediate family

Members
Leonard I. Rogers (father)
Leda (Stidham) Rogers (mother)
Jimmie B. Rogers (brother)
Jerry Rogers (brother)
Ethel Rogers (sister)
June Rogers (sister)
Leda M. Rogers (wife)

More information

Cpl Kenneth B. Rogers attended college for four years before he enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio on 22 June 1943.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Brown Tree of New England / 1940 Census, www.findagrave.com, www.fold3.com – 26th Infantry Division

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