- SURNAME
Brooks
- FORENAME
Jake E.
- UNIT
formerly 551 Parachute Infantry Bn (Company C)
- RANK
Private
- NUMBER
20415434
- DATE OF DEATH
24th June 1944
- AGE
- GRAVESITE
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay Township, Missouri, USA. Section 84, Site 313-315
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Missouri
born 1923, Alabama
grammar school education
civil occupation skilled compositor and typesetters
single without dependents upon enlistment
24.09.1941 entered service Montgomery, Alabama
formerly Paratrooper
WIA North African Campaign
Gunner onboard B-24 Liberator (41-29227) shot down over Romania. On mission to bomb the oil fields Ploesti, Romania.
awarded Air Medal and 2 Oak Leaf Clusters
not found in records
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