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James Richard Kohlbecker [1]
1928 September 11 [2]Birth in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois.
1930 April 5 [3]Federal Census. Residence: 924 South 11th Street, Springfield (Capital Township), Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
1931 [4]City Directory. Residence: 705 South 13th, Springfield, Illinois. Two boys, one girl.
1932 [5]City Directory. Residence: 705 South 13th, Springfield, Illinois. Two boys, one girl.
1933 [6]City Directory. Residence: 705 South 13th, Springfield, Illinois. Two boys, one girl.
1934 [7][8]City Directory. Residence: 705 South 13th, Springfield, Illinois. Two boys, one girl.
1937 [9]City Directory. Residence: 705 South 13th, Springfield, Illinois. Two boys, one girl.
1938 June 18 [10]Newspaper article. Jim and his brother Gene spent this Saturday with the Wanderbird group of the Springfield Nature League competing in a flower and plant identification contest, playing tennis, and horseback riding.
1945 October [11]Newspaper article. Service as an enlisted man through August 1948. First Infantry division in Europe. Sergeant of the Guard at the Nuremberg trials.
1950 November [12]Newspaper article. Through April, 1951, fought as a member of the Eighth Army Ranger Co., attached to the 25th division in Korea.
1951 June [13]Newspaper article. Commissioned as second lieutenant and assigned as a communications officer with the 27th Infantry Regiment in Korea.
1951 July 13 Military. Wounded in South Korea.
1951 September 5 Military. Returned to duty from Houston, Texas, with the 27th Infantry regiment in South Korea.
1952 January [14]Newspaper article. Residence: 810 South 14th Street, Springfield, Illinois.
1952 March 25 [15]Newspaper article. Residence: 814 South 14th Street, Springfield, Illinois.
1954 June – September [16]Newpaper article. Gary Air Force Base, San Marcos, Texas. Student pilot at the army aviation school.
1954 December 2 [17]Newspaper article. Residence: Alexandria, Virginia. Captain James R. Kohlbecker named acting assistant adjutant general for the military district of Washington, D.C.
1963 February 4Death of mother Virginia Barbara Pletz at St John's Hospital, Springfield, Illinois.
1977 September 23 Death of father Edmund Martin Kohlbecker at Passavant Hospital, Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois.
1977 September 24 [18]Newspaper article. Residence: West Palm Beach, Florida.
2016 November 20 Death in West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida.
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