PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Baldwin, Leon E. (Servicenumber: 39311399)
Date of birth: Unknown
Date of death:  September 27th, 1944 (near Groesbeek/Gelderland, the Netherlands)
Buried on:  Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial
Nationality:  American
BIOGRAPHY: 
Staff Sergeant Leon E. Baldwin is missing in action. His name has been engraved on the "Wall of the Missing" at the "American Cemetery and Memorial Netherlands", Margraten, the Netherlands.
     
SILVER STAR
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: Company I, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division "All-American", U.S. Army
Action: For action performed on 27 September 1944, near Den Heuvel in the vicinity of Wyler (Germany) and Groesbeek/Gelderland, the Netherlands
Details: Posthumously awarded. Citation unavailable.
 
     
BRONZE STAR (BSM)
Unit: Company I, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division "All-American", US Army
Action: Citation unavailable.
 
     
PURPLE HEART
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: Company I, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division "All-American", U.S. Army
 
 
 
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Picture source:   - WW2-Airborne.us
Information source(s):   - NORDYKE, P., More Than Courage, Zenith Press, St. Paul, United States, 2008.
- WW2-Airborne.us
- American Battle Monuments Commission
- Market Garden.com
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