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Personal info

Full name
SLACK, Arden Taylor
Date of birth
3 July 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Vergennes, Addison County, Vermont
Hometown
Vergennes, Addison County, Vermont

Military service

Service number
11084981
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
104th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
13 March 1945
Place of death
Near Merzig, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
B 5 15

Immediate family

Members
Raymond D. Slack (father)
Mary A. (Norton) Slack (mother)
Dorothy A. Slack (sister)
Rachael Slack (sister)

More information

Pfc Arden T. Slack attended Vergennes High School for four years and was employed at the Bregart Chaking Grindes Company before he volunteered for the Army of the United States in Rutland, Vermont on 21 September 1942. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to the chest.

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 / Norton Wigley Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com – Russ Pickett, www.fold3.com – 26th Infantry Division, www.newspapers.com – The Burlington Free Press Vermont 17 January 1945/The Enterprise and Vermonter 29 March 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery, www.newspapers.com – The Burlington Free Press 17 January 1945