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Personal info

Full name
EPP, Howard Peter
Date of birth
4 June 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
South Ozone Park, Queens County, New York
Hometown
Queens, Queens County, New York

Military service

Service number
42055851
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
104th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 December 1944
Place of death
Rambrough, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
D 2 3

Immediate family

Members
Adam Epp (father)
Anna (Reinhardt) Epp (mother)
Theresa D. Epp (sister)
Elsie C. Epp (sister)
Adam Epp (brother)
Anna M. Epp (sister)
Walter W. Epp (brother)
Stephen J. Epp (brother)
William F. Epp (brother)
Helen M. Epp (sister)
Eileen R. Epp (sister)
Mary M. Epp (wife)

More information

Pvt Howard P. Epp attended high school for four years and was a stenographer and typist at the railroad before he enlisted in New York City, New York on 23 November 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his back.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Grand-Failly, 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. Railroad Retirement Pension Index / Datzcdatz Hurley Schuldes Bloeth Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com, After Action Report 26th Infantry Division
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks Ozone Park, New York