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2LT Eugene Fredrick Kimple

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2LT Eugene Fredrick Kimple Veteran

Birth
Kansas, USA
Death
19 Jul 1944 (aged 21)
Italy
Burial
Florence, Città Metropolitana di Firenze, Toscana, Italy Add to Map
Plot
Block E Row 1 Grave 13
Memorial ID
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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-535232
Entered the Service from: Kansas
350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division
Awards: Purple Heart

Eugene F. Kimple is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Lyon County, Kansas.

Eugene was a 2nd Lt. in the 350th infantry, 88th Division. He died July 19, 1944 and is buried in Florence, Italy. He was awarded a purple heart.

The following information appears in an article of the Lyons Daily News dated Monday, August 2, 1944:
"Attached to an infantry unit Lieutenant Kimple shipped overseas last April, going directly to Italy where his outfit is participating in the victorious Allied drive up the Italian boot. With only one semester to go to receive his degree in vocational agriculture from Kansas State college at Manhattan, Lieutenant Kimple entered the service July 2, 1943, and was assigned directly to officers candidate school at Fort Benning, Georgia, his ROTC training at KSC preparing him for this step to an army commission."

***I would like to thank MISTY Find A Grave ID 46634910 for adding her gravesite photo to this memorial***
U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-535232
Entered the Service from: Kansas
350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division
Awards: Purple Heart

Eugene F. Kimple is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Lyon County, Kansas.

Eugene was a 2nd Lt. in the 350th infantry, 88th Division. He died July 19, 1944 and is buried in Florence, Italy. He was awarded a purple heart.

The following information appears in an article of the Lyons Daily News dated Monday, August 2, 1944:
"Attached to an infantry unit Lieutenant Kimple shipped overseas last April, going directly to Italy where his outfit is participating in the victorious Allied drive up the Italian boot. With only one semester to go to receive his degree in vocational agriculture from Kansas State college at Manhattan, Lieutenant Kimple entered the service July 2, 1943, and was assigned directly to officers candidate school at Fort Benning, Georgia, his ROTC training at KSC preparing him for this step to an army commission."

***I would like to thank MISTY Find A Grave ID 46634910 for adding her gravesite photo to this memorial***


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