US PARAS Bennett, Thurman Leonard

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Bennett ​

• FORENAME

Thurman Leonard ("Mike")​

• UNIT

501 Parachute Infantry Regiment (Company H) ​

• RANK

Private ​

• NUMBER

34361281 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

14th June 1944 ​

• AGE

23​

• GRAVESITE

Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Masonic Section​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Hopkins County, Kentucky​

born 11.01.1921 Caruthersville, Missouri, USA​

father Gideon Elmore Bennett (1890-1950)​

mother Mary Oveline (nee Dillard) Bennett (1894-1959)​

grammar school education​

civil occupation stock clerk​

employed by B.E. Bennett, Plumbing & Heating Company, Nashville, Tennessee​

single without dependents upon enlistment​

16.02.1942 draft card Nashville, Tennessee​

wife Ann Gladys Marks Bennett​

23.07.1942 entered service Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia​

KIA Normandy ​

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