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Personal info

Full name
SAKOWICZ, Robert Virgil
Date of birth
4 September 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Hometown
Markham, Cook County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36655662
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
3rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized),
F Company
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 March 1945
Place of death
East of Hockweiler, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 16 1

Immediate family

Members
Stanley Sakowicz (father)
Elizabeth (Wieloudek) Sakowicz (mother)
Edmund J. Sakowicz (brother)
Marian Sakowicz (sister)

More information

T/5 Robert V. Sakowicz graduated from Thornton Township High School in 1942. He was employed at R. R. Donnelly Company before he enlisted.
The Company crossed the Saar River and advanced east to Hockweiller, where the Company ran into a heavy enemy artillery barrage. Pfc Frank Obrochta and T/5 Robert Sakowicz were killed.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1940 Census / Henry G. Vaughan Family Tree, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Thornton Township High School - 1942