Willis E Spesert Gender: Male Rank: Private First Class Residence Place: West Virginia Type of Medal: Purple Heart Service Number: 35391766 Military Unit: 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division Military Branch: U.S. Army War: World War II Death Date: 12 Nov 1944 Cemetery Plot Number: B Cemetery Row: 26 Cemetery Section: Grave: 54 Cemetery: Lorraine Burial Place: St Avold, France Spouse: Evelyn Spesert. Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Chico (Butte County, California) Record, Wednesday Morning, November 29, 1944, pg 3 col 6: Pfc. Willis Spesert Killed in France. Private First Class Willis E. Spesert, former Chico resident and veteran of three years service, has been killed in action in France, November 12, according to a telegram received Saturday from the War Department by his mother, Mrs. Jecca Swift of San Francisco.
No details of his death were relayed in the short wire.
Pfc. Spesert is survived by his father, Willis Spesert, Richardson Springs, his mother, and several sisters and brothers in Chico, and a sister in Los Angeles.
Willis E Spesert Gender: Male Rank: Private First Class Residence Place: West Virginia Type of Medal: Purple Heart Service Number: 35391766 Military Unit: 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division Military Branch: U.S. Army War: World War II Death Date: 12 Nov 1944 Cemetery Plot Number: B Cemetery Row: 26 Cemetery Section: Grave: 54 Cemetery: Lorraine Burial Place: St Avold, France Spouse: Evelyn Spesert. Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Chico (Butte County, California) Record, Wednesday Morning, November 29, 1944, pg 3 col 6: Pfc. Willis Spesert Killed in France. Private First Class Willis E. Spesert, former Chico resident and veteran of three years service, has been killed in action in France, November 12, according to a telegram received Saturday from the War Department by his mother, Mrs. Jecca Swift of San Francisco.
No details of his death were relayed in the short wire.
Pfc. Spesert is survived by his father, Willis Spesert, Richardson Springs, his mother, and several sisters and brothers in Chico, and a sister in Los Angeles.
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Entered the service from West Virginia.
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