James Ray Vance,Jr
from West Virginia,USA
Private First Class
4 Company 2 Regiment
born 19.12.1923 West Virginia
son of James Ray and Blossie (nee Jarrell) Vance
1 Ranger Bn
4 Ranger Bn (Company D)
FSSF 1944
WIA 3 times (including 22.2.1944 and 23.5.1944)
discharged 31.12.1945 Fort George G. Meade,Maryland
coal miner,West Virginia postwar
married Margaret E. Miller (9 children)
died 21.9.1988 West Virginia
Hatfield Cemetery,Barrett,Boone County,West Virginia
photo submitted by his daughter
Mary E. Vance of Concord,North Carolina
taken with 4 Ranger Bn