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Personal info

Full name
ZAJACZKOWSKI, Chester
Date of birth
1909
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Germany
Hometown
Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35249911
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
317th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
10 December 1944
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
J 43 10

Immediate family

Members
Clara M. (Olejniczak) Zajaczkowski (wife)

More information

Pvt Chester Zajaczkowski became and American citizen in 1930 and was a production worker.

He enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 28 March 1944.
He was reported seriously wounded in action and evacuated to a hospital on 25 November. At that time his unit was engaged in the fighting for Faulquemont, France.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com – 1930 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record / Ohio County Naturalisation, www.80thdivision.com

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