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Personal info

Full name
GLAVAN, Fred A
Date of birth
30 March 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Kinney, St. Louis County, Minnesota
Hometown
Kinney, St. Louis County, Minnesota

Military service

Service number
37572516
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
H Company,
3rd Battalion,
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division,
1st Platoon
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
7 January 1945
Place of death
Near Flamierge, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 8 19

Immediate family

Members
Frank Glavan (father)
Mary (Virent) Glavan (mother)
Frank Glavan (brother)
Albin Glavan (brother)
John Glavan (brother)
Ludwig Glavan (brother)
Louis J. Glavan (brother)
Julia Glavan (sister)
William Glavan (brother)

More information

Pfc Fred A. Glavan's parents immigrated from Slovenia.

He was killed by a sniper. The bullet hit him in the chest.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, France.

His brother, Louis J. Glavan was killed on 30 March 1945 and is buried at the American Military Cemetery and Memorial of Margraten, the Netherlands.
All six brothers served during the war, four in Europe, two in the Pacific. Albin Glavan was severely wounded in April 1945 on the island of Ie Shima, just off the coast of Okinawa.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Tony Glavan (nephew), www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Minnesota, Birth Index / 1930 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery, Star Tribune 29 March 2000