Rank: Technician Fifth Grade
Unit: Troop C, 36th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Entered service: 2-Aug-1943
Enlisted: Altoona, Pennsylvania
Enlisted by: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Date of birth: 3-Mar-1921
Hometown: Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Marital status: Single, without dependents. Parents: James Albert Sams and Carrie Burl [Ramsey] Sams
Campaign: World War II
Date of casualty: 26-Jan-1945
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Killed in action
Location of fatality: Linnich, Germany
Place of interment: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Brownsville, Ohio, USA
Originally buried in the United States Military Cemetery, Margraten, Holland. Repatriated October 1948.
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