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| UNIT:
116th Infantry Regiment, 29th
Infantry Division |
| RANK:
Private |
| BORN:
1912 |
| WHERE:
Baltimore, Maryland |
| DIED:
July 28, 1944 |
| WHERE:
France |
| CAUSE
OF DEATH: Killed in Action near
Vire, France |
| BURIED:
Normandy American Cemetery,
Colleville-sur-Mer, France |
| MARKER:
Military |
|
|
 Pvt. Herbert F. Chinn, 31,
husband of Mrs. Pauline Chinn, 220 South Clinton
street, was reported officially killed in action
July 28 somewhere in France according to word
received by his wife Saturday, August 19, from
the War Department.Chinn was inducted into the service
August 24, 1943, and received his infantry
training at Camp Shelby, Miss. He was sent
overseas April 25, 1944 and was first stationed
somewhere in England and later in France.
On August 7, Mrs.
Chinn received a letter from her husband July 27,
telling her that he had been in released from the
hospital. The following day he was killed in
action.
In his letter,
Pvt. Chinn, a former Fairmont Jockey, told his
wife that he prayed every night that this war
would end soon, and that he thanked God for the
power that he had given him to carry on so that
he might return home safely. He pointed out that
know he knew just how much the Bible really meant
to him and his pals, and his greatest desire was
for her to read the Bible so that she would
understand the work of Our Lord.
|
Pvt. Herbert
Chinn 
