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Jack Llewellyn Knight

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Holders Chapel Road, off US 180 W of Weatherford, Cool Community, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 34° 0' 10.23536000016", -101° 18' 58.3621300008"
 
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     Born on a farm near Garner (4 miles north) Jack L. Knight enlisted in the Texas National Guard in 1940. Mobilized for service during World War II, his unit was posted to Southeast Asia to help open the Burma Road between India and China. During one of the last battles in that region, Knight was killed while leading an attack on a Japanese position. Four months later, he was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the only one awarded for the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. In 1949 he was buried in this cemetery named for his great-grandfather. (1990)

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Jack Llewellyn Knight Historical Marker Location Map, Cool Community, Texas