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Personal info

Full name
SPANGLER, Chalmer Ernest
Date of birth
12 January 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Shanksville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33149588
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
104th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 November 1944
Place of death
Denting, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 35 19

Immediate family

Members
Fred S. Spangler (father)
Margaret (Long) Spangler (mother)
Velma R. Spangler (sister)
Betty L. Spangler (sister)
Ruth N. (Newberry) Spangler (wife)

More information

Cpl Chalmer E. Spangler attended high school for three years and was employed at the Carnegie Illinios Steel Company before he enlisted in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on 10 February 1942. He was sent overseas in June 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his buttock and hip.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, France.

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 / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 26th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - G. Charles Ogline Lantay, www.newspapers.com - The York Dispatch 30 November 1944
Photo source: www.newspapers.com - The York Dispatch 30 November 1944