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William Cole Sellers Jr.
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Combat Infantry Badge; WW II Victory Medal; European-African-Middle Eastern Service Medal
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Overseas service: European Theater of Operation. School: UNKNOWN. Union County residency not confirmed as of 10/24/2007; born in Chicago; resided in Cincinnati at time of enlistment; resided in North Carolina; no verification of Union County school records; family not listed in census records for Union County; serial #O-554656; detained as POW in Stalag 9B Bad Orb Hessen-Nassau, Prussia 50-09 Father - William Cole Sellers (WWI); Grandfather - John Lewis Sellers (Spanish American War) and Gt. Grandfather, George L Sellers (Civil War)
Source of this information
The U. S. National Archives & Records Administration World War II Prisoners of War Data File; | Separation Qualification Record, Ft. Knox, Kentucky, Separation Center; Social Security Death Index; veteran data form and discharge copy provided by Gertrude Sellers
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