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Personal info

Full name
MCCULLOUGH, Jack William Jr
Date of birth
7 March 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Paxton, Ford County, Illinois
Hometown
Rantoul, Champaign County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36988655
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
134th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 January 1945
Place of death
Near Villers-la-Bonne-Eau, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
I 12 10

Immediate family

Members
Jack W. McCullough (father)
Ida R. (Clopper) McCullough (mother)
Don W. McCullough (brother)
Catherine E. McCullough (sister)
Lyle D. McCullough (brother)
Penny (White) McCullough (wife)
Donna McCullough (daughter)
Jonnette McCullough (daughter)

More information

Pvt Jack. W. McCullough Jr. graduated from Rantoul Township High School with the class of 1937 and was employed as a foreman expeditor for Brad-Foote Gear Company in Chicago, when he enlisted on 20 June 1944. He was sent overseas in December 1944.

He is remembered at the Mountain view Memorial Park in Longmont, Boulder County, Colorado.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.newspapers.com - The Paxton Record 15 February 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave - Peter Schouteten / Longmont Genealogical Society / Cheryl Chatfield Thompson