Rank: Private First Class
Unit: 44th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Awards: Purple Heart Medal
Entered service: 13-Feb-1943
Enlisted: Cincinnati, Ohio
Enlisted by: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Date of birth: 14-Oct-1913
Hometown: Hamilton County, Ohio
Marital status: Single, with dependents. Parents: Jacob Mautz and Regina [Schehl] Mautz
Campaign: World War II
Date of casualty: 27-Feb-1945
Age at death: 31
Cause of death: Killed in action.
Location of fatality: Wegberg, Germany
Place of interment: Saint Joseph Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Originally buried in the United States Military Cemetery, Margraten, Holland. Repatriated November 1948.
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