- SURNAME
Skaggs
- FORENAME
Walbert Wyatt
- UNIT
- RANK
Private First Class
- NUMBER
35697600
- AWARD
Bronze Star,Purple Heart
- PLACE
Burma 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 8.7.1923 Gatton,Kentucky
son of Felix Trude and Nellie Vina (nee Johnson) Skaggs
3 years high school
unskilled worker in manufacture of tobacco products in civilian life
enlisted 23.2.1943 Louisville,Kentucky
WIA 31.7.1944 near Myitkyina,Burma
219 Signal Depot Company 1945
discharged 17.1.1946
Civil Service,Fort Knox
married Geneva Alura Mayes 10.2.1946 (1927-91) (4 children Shirley,Linda,Lisa and Garry)
last residence 5275 Bailey Road,Mount Sherman,Kentucky
died 15.6.2005 Hodgenville,Kentucky
Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church Cemetery,Pleasant Ridge,Larue County,Kentucky
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