Name: Fred Elmer Kitchens

 

Service number: 38146528

 

Born: 4 August, 1914, Oklahoma

 

Hometown: Stephens County, Ohio

 

 

Family: 

 

William Zachariah Kitchens (father)

Emma Parlee Fairchild (mother)

Set Twins Kitchens (sister)

Minnie Mae Kitchens (sister)

John Kitchens (brother)

William Floyd Kitchens (brother)

Jesse Robert Kitchens (brother)

Jewel Latha Kitchens (sister)

Cecil Charlie Kitchens (brother)

Hazel Kitchens (sister)

 

 

Rank: Private First Class

 

Division: 90th Infantry Division

 

Regiment: 358th Infantry Regiment

 

Enlistment: 17 March1942, Fort Still, Oklahoma

 

Status: KIA

 

Date of death: 9 July 1944

 

Awards: Purple Heart

 

Grave Number: Plot F Row 10 Grave 17

 

Cemetery: American War Cemetery Colleville-sur-Mer

 

Other information: 

 

Believed to be killed by a sniper while he was driving a jeep