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Walter Henry JUVE Jr.
"Walt"
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Source : Victor Daniel & Hudson Louie | |||||||
| NUMBER OF SERVICE | 13186200 | ||||||
| AGE | 20 yo | ||||||
| DATE OF BIRTH | 10 October 1023 Akron, Summit county, OHIO | ||||||
| ENLISTMENT STATE | Summit, OHIO | ||||||
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Parents : Walter H Sr. & Magd M Petersen JUVE | ||||||
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| FONCTION | Rifleman | ||||||
| JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENT | Employee at Goodyisar Tires & Rubber Co. / Agricultural Engineering student |  | |||||
| DATE of ENLISTEMENT | 30 June 1942 | ||||||
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| REGIMENT | 2nd Regiment | ||||||
| DIVISION | 1st Special Service Force / (attached) 1st Airborne Task Force | ||||||
| ARMY | 7th Army | ||||||
| DATE OF DEATH | 12 September 1944 |
Source : Victor Daniel | |||||
| STATUS | KIA | ||||||
| PLACE OF DEATH | French-Italian border | ||||||
| CEMETERY TEMPORARY |
CEMTERY TEMPORARY of Draguignan N°3519 | ||||||
| CEMETERY | RHONE AMERICAN CEMETERY and MEMORIAL of Draguignan | ||||||
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Source : Victor Daniel | It was during his second year of study that Walter JUVE decided to become involved.
After his classes he volunteered to join a mountain unit. Later he joined the training camp to join the recent 1st Special Service Force, an elite troupe that would operate on the Mediterranean theater. These would specialize in any type of operation among the hardest to conduct; snowy environment, amphibious invasion, mountain combat... He joins his unit at the time of the landing in Provence while the 1st SSF operates with the 1st Airborne Task Force. He participated in the whole campaign from mid-August until his death on the front line on 12 September 1944, fighting then at the Franco-Italian border. | ||||||
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Source : Victor Daniel | |||||||
| Walter was the son of Walter H. Sr., and Magda Juve. (Walt was in the First Special Service Force. It was a combined Canadian-American Commando group, and they were the fore-runners of the Green Berets who started in the Korean War. They had the nickname of "The Black Devils". A book was written describing their organization: A Commemorative History of the First Special Services Force, Taylor Publishing Co., Dallas, Texas. --This information provided by R. Juve.) He was killed in action during World War II while serving in France at the age of 21. When his father was told of his death, he suffered a heart attack and died also. Magda lived on untill 1990. Walter was a Private from Ohio serving in the 2nd Regiment, First Special Service Force. He is buried in Rhone, Draguignan, France. The grave maker at Glendale in Akron is mearly symbolic. |
Source : Kathie Weigel | ||||||
| SOURCE INFORMATION & SOURCE PHOTO | Victor DANIEL - abmc.gov - archives.gov - fr.findagrave.com - ancesry.com - en.wikipedia.org |
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| EDITORS | Victor, Jean-Philippe, Eric, Henri, Garrett, Clive, Frédéric & Renaud |