Joe C. Mitchell

Company B 1st Battalion 22nd Infantry

4th Infantry Division

DOW 08/08/1944

Joe C. Mitchell's enlistment record indicates he was born in Arkansas in 1917.

The application for his headstone gives his date of death as August 8, 1944. It also gives his
date of birth as August 3, 1923, which differs from the birth year recorded in his enlistment record.

He was drafted into the Army on July 7, 1942 at Santa Fe, New Mexico. His home of residence was listed
as San Juan County, New Mexico and his civilian occupation was listed as Unskilled Occupations
in Building of Aircraft. He had completed grammar school and was single with no dependents.
His religion was listed as Catholic.

He was assigned to Company B from the 4th Infantry Division replacement pool
on July 13, 1944.

He was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge in Headquarters 22nd Infantry General Orders No. 7,
dated September 28, 1944, with an effective date of the award to him personally of July 29, 1944.

He was wounded in action on July 29, 1944, and died of his wounds on August 8, 1944.

The Rosters of World War II Dead from the Quartermaster General's Office shows that Joe C. Mitchell
was temporarily buried in England, which would indicate that he died of his wounds in a hospital in England.

Therefore this website believes it would be accurate to state that Private First Class Mitchell
died in England on August 8, 1944, of wounds received in action in France on July 29, 1944.

Joe C. Mitchell was buried in the temporary U.S. Military Cemetery,
Cambridge Cemetery, England and some time later his remains
were returned to the United States where he was
reinterred in Arizona.

Burial:
Navajo Veterans Memorial Cemetery
Fort Defiance
Apache County
Arizona

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