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Personal info

Full name
NUPRIENOK, Leo John
Date of birth
11 February 1920
Age
25
Place of birth
Kenosha, Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Hometown
Panama

Military service

Service number
36800337
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ & HQ Company,
1st Battalion,
311th Infantry Regiment,
78th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 March 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
E 10 9

Immediate family

Members
John Nuprienok (father)
Katherine Nuprienok (mother)
Olga Nuprienok (sister)
Helen J. Nuprienok (sister)
Mary Nuprienok (wife)

More information

Cpl Leo J. Nuprienok graduated from Kenosha High School in 1938 and later attended Tri-State College in Indiana. He moved to the Panama Canal Zone in 1940 to work as a civilian engineer.

He enlisted in October 1942 and trained at Little Rock, Arkansas, Houston, Texas and Fort Sheridan, Illinois.

He was married to Mary, a member of the Women's Army Corps, married in April 1944 and was sent overseas in October of the same year.

His parents were immigrants from Poland and started a new life in America in 1910.

Source of information: Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.findagrave.com - James L. Cooper

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Westosha High School Class of 1938 yearbook