U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-1169689
Enlistment Date: 12/23/1940 with Service No. #20734093
Entered the Service from: Kansas
12th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division
Awards: Silver Star, Air Medal, Purple Heart
Merlyn B. Phillips is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Coffey County, Kansas.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as Gridley, Coffey County, Kansas. Contact person listed as Mrs. Helen Phillips (Mother) of same address. Place of birth listed as Volga City, Iowa on 08/22/1918. Middle name listed as Blake. Employed as Day Labor as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
Minnesota, U.S., Marriages from the Minnesota Official Marriage System, 1850-2022 lists Merlyn Blake Phillips with marriage date of 24 Apr 1943 in Winona County, Minnesota to Irene Geneva Otterbeck.
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mrs. Irene G. Phillips (Wife)
Strawberry Point, Iowa
***I would like to thank Bart Hamlett Find A Grave ID 48046330 for adding his photo of Merlyn to this memorial***
***I would like to thank MISTY Find A Grave ID 46634910 for adding her gravesite photo to this memorial***
***I would like to thank bnice Find A Grave ID 49113940 for linking his parents to this memorial***Merlyn was adopted by his Uncle Hugh Phillips and his aunt.
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-1169689
Enlistment Date: 12/23/1940 with Service No. #20734093
Entered the Service from: Kansas
12th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division
Awards: Silver Star, Air Medal, Purple Heart
Merlyn B. Phillips is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Coffey County, Kansas.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as Gridley, Coffey County, Kansas. Contact person listed as Mrs. Helen Phillips (Mother) of same address. Place of birth listed as Volga City, Iowa on 08/22/1918. Middle name listed as Blake. Employed as Day Labor as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
Minnesota, U.S., Marriages from the Minnesota Official Marriage System, 1850-2022 lists Merlyn Blake Phillips with marriage date of 24 Apr 1943 in Winona County, Minnesota to Irene Geneva Otterbeck.
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 lists the name and address of his Next of Kin as:
Mrs. Irene G. Phillips (Wife)
Strawberry Point, Iowa
***I would like to thank Bart Hamlett Find A Grave ID 48046330 for adding his photo of Merlyn to this memorial***
***I would like to thank MISTY Find A Grave ID 46634910 for adding her gravesite photo to this memorial***
***I would like to thank bnice Find A Grave ID 49113940 for linking his parents to this memorial***Merlyn was adopted by his Uncle Hugh Phillips and his aunt.
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MERLYN B. PHILLIPS
1LT 12 FA BN 2 DIV
KANSAS AUG 10 1944
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