Enlistment Date: 04/12/1944
3rd Tank Battalion, 10th Armored Division
John W. Adams is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Saline County, Missouri.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as Portageville, Pemiscot County, Missouri. Contact person listed as Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Adams (Mother) of Canalou, New Madrid County, Missouri. Place of birth listed as New Madrid, Missouri. Employed by Mr. G. P. Hobbs, Portageville, Missouri as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
U.S., National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962 lists WWII dead returned from Hamm - Luxembourg - Luxembourg. Re-interred on August 19th, 1948.
***I would like to thank Eric Kreft Find A Grave ID 46843358 for adding his gravesite photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank D Bechtol Hill Find A Grave ID 51172272 for updating the inscription and birth/death location information on this memorial in addition to linking his father to it***
Enlistment Date: 04/12/1944
3rd Tank Battalion, 10th Armored Division
John W. Adams is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Saline County, Missouri.
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as Portageville, Pemiscot County, Missouri. Contact person listed as Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Adams (Mother) of Canalou, New Madrid County, Missouri. Place of birth listed as New Madrid, Missouri. Employed by Mr. G. P. Hobbs, Portageville, Missouri as of 10/16/1940 registration date.
U.S., National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962 lists WWII dead returned from Hamm - Luxembourg - Luxembourg. Re-interred on August 19th, 1948.
***I would like to thank Eric Kreft Find A Grave ID 46843358 for adding his gravesite photos to this memorial***
***I would like to thank D Bechtol Hill Find A Grave ID 51172272 for updating the inscription and birth/death location information on this memorial in addition to linking his father to it***
Inscription
JOHN W
ADAMS
MISSOURI
PVT 3 TANK BN
10 ARMD DIV
WORLD WAR II
SEPTEMBER 3 1917
MARCH 12 1945
Gravesite Details
Pvt., U.S. Army World War II
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