MERRILL'S MARAUDERS McFadden, Alexander Bloomfield

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

McFadden​

• FORENAME

Alexander Bloomfield​

• UNIT

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• RANK

First Lieutenant​

• NUMBER

0-1312961​

• AWARD

Bronze Star,Purple Heart​

• PLACE

Burma 1944​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from New York,New York (60 Beaver Street)​

born 10.3.1913 Radnor,Pennsylvania​

son of George Henry II and Josephine Burton (nee McIlvaine) McFadden​

3 years college​

retail manager in civilian life​

enlisted 19.5.1942 Fort Jay,Governors Island,New York (Private 32339243)​

commissioned Infantry​

WIA 3.8.1944 Burma​

475 Infantry Regiment 1944-45​

member of a cotton firm postwar​

married Mary Josephine Cutting 1938 (1916-91)​

resided 31 Broadmoor Avenue,Colorado Springs,Colorado 1945​

last residence Memphis,Tennessee​

killed 14.2.1948 in avalanche Difficult Creek,near Aspen,Pitkin County,Colorado​

buried Philadelphia,Pennsylvania​

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