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Personal info

Full name
PANEK, Louis Robert
Date of birth
30 October 1919
Age
24
Place of birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Hometown
Cook County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36305715
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
702nd Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
7 October 1944
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Louis Panek (father)
Catherine (Kieleck) Panek (mother)
Mary Panek (sister)
Anthony Panek (brother)
Edward Panek (brother)
Agnes Panek (sister)
Antoinette Panek (sister)
Edwin Panek (brother)
Theodore Panek (brother)

More information

Cpl Louis R. Panek was employed by Armour and Co as a warehouse trucker before he enlisted in Chicago, Illinois on 19 November 1941.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census, WWII Draft Cards

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Catherine Evans (niece) - courtesy of Kathy Mc Dermott