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Personal info

Full name
SOVIK, Jacob Floyd "Jake"
Date of birth
12 October 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Johnstown, Fulton County, New York
Hometown
Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York

Military service

Service number
32944264
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
141st Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
2 January 1945
Place of death
France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 22 1

Immediate family

Members
Stephen J. Sovik (father)
Karolina (Rossivatch) Sovik (mother)
Stephen G. Sovik (brother)
Florence Sovik (sister)
Elizabeth Sovik (sister)
Stephanie L. Sovik (sister)
Joseph Sovik (brother)
Helen Sovik (sister)
Erma Sovik (sister)
John F. Sovik (brother)
Zofia (Miler) Sovik (1st wife)
Stella M. (Saldas) Sovik (2nd wife)

More information

Pfc Jacob F. Sovik was a wholesale manager by Gerald Fitzgerald before he enlisted in Albany, New York on 8 September 1943.

He died in a field hospital of wounds, sustained by artillery shell fragments in his brain.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / WWII Draft Cards Young Men / WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / Pollak Empey Tree, www.findagrave.com – Eric Ackerman

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy