Rank: Sergeant
Unit: Troop A, 44th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Awards: Purple Heart
Entered service: 27-Aug-1941
Date of birth: 28-Mar-1916
Hometown: Guthrie County, Iowa
Marital status: Single. Parents: Henry C Bauer and Katherine Bauer
Campaign: World War II
Date of casualty: 2-Mar-1945
Age at death: 28
Cause of death: Killed in action.
Place of interment: Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California, USA
Originally buried in the United States Military Cemetery, Margraten, Holland. Repatriated June 1948.
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