PFC
Melvin F Porter
Aged 29, fallen March 3, 1945
- Unit
- Company A, 232nd Infantry Regiment
- Serial number
- 31210677
- Hometown
- Essex, Massachusetts
- Date of death
- March 3, 1945
- Classification
- Died of wounds
- Burial
- Beechbrook Cemetery, Veterans Section, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Private First Class Melvin F Porter, serial number 31210677, of Essex, Massachusetts, served with Company A of the 232nd Infantry Regiment in the 42nd Infantry Division, the Rainbow Division. He died of wounds on March 3, 1945, at the age of 29. He is buried at Beechbrook Cemetery, Veterans Section, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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