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Personal info

Full name
PALKOWSKI, Leonard J
Date of birth
1916
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Military service

Service number
36249039
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
379th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 December 1944
Place of death
Saarlautern, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 11 38

Immediate family

Members
Franz Palkowski (father)
Leocadia (Dabrowska) Palkowski (mother)
Anna B. Palkowski (sister)
Helen Palkowski (sister)
Anita Palkowski (sister)
Lorraine M. Palkowski (sister)
Alicia V. Palkowski (sister)
Irene E. Palkowski (sister)
Erwin M. Palkowski (brother)
Charlotte J. Palkowski (sister)

More information

Cpl Leonard J. Palkowski attended high school for four years and worked in a machine shop

He enlisted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 2 July 1942.
He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlisment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 Census / Rossell Family Tree, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
Photo source: The Milwaukee Journal - 24 January 1945