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Personal info

Full name
SHWITZER, Robert A
Date of birth
1924
Age
unknown
Place of birth
New York
Hometown
Westchester County, New York

Military service

Service number
11081160
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
1st Battalion,
377th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
11 March 1945
Place of death
Wolfsberg, Austria

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
B 24 18

Immediate family

Members
Samuel D. Shwitzer (father)
Marian F. Shwitzer (mother)
Jane M. Shwitzer (sister)

More information

Pfc Robert A. Shwitzer worked in the production of bakery products before he joined the Regular Army in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 4 August 1942.

He was taken prisoner and died in Stalag XVIII-A.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - A Grateful American, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record / World War II Prisoners of War Data File, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census
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