WWII

Joseph Albert King

Rate / Rank
S Sergeant

Birthdate
September 22 1909

Date of Death
June 25 1993

Branch
US Army

Active Duty Service
March 4 1943 - September 30 1945

Conflicts & Campaigns

European Theater of Operations, October 29, 1944 - April 21, 1945
Ardennes; Rhineland

Significant Duty Stations

Inducted; Fort McPherson, Georgia. Discharged; Camp Hood, Texas
Company H, 422nd Infantry, 106th Division

Decorations & Citations

Purple Heart; POW Medal; European-African-Middle Eastern Medal with two bronze stars
World War II Victory Medal

Notes

Army serial number 34-762-928. Home of Record; 519 1st St. SW, Cairo, Georgia. Born; Cairo, Georgia Captured by Germans at Battle of the Bulge December 19, 1944. Liberated on Good Friday March 30, 1945 by Soviet Forces. Employee of Standard Oil Company Cairo, Georgia before entering the Army. Employed by Chastain Tractor, Cairo, Georgia after the war. Brother of Staff Sergeant Norwood Jack King US Army. Burial; Greenwood Cemetery, Cairo, Georgia.