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Philip M. Bylewski graduated from Marquette High School in Milwaukee. He was employed at the Kearney-Trecker Corp. before he enlisted in November 1941.

Sergeant Arthur Colligan
"His thoughts are going back to the 8th of October 1944, the day Philip Bylewski got killed, at the age of 30, by shell-fire. It seemed that Philip felt that he was going to die. The day before, he went suddenly to church, to pray. Philip was a religious man. He must have felt that something very serious was going to happen. Sergeant Arthur Colligan saw Philip Bylewski dying for his eyes during a tank battle at the German place Baesweiler. He himself got very heavy injured. He lost one eye and his right hand was shattered. The loss of Philip did more to me than my own injuries. I knew Philip from the beginning of the war. Four years we spent each together. He was my buddy. Of the 117 soldiers of my company 15 men returned alive to the US after the war. I was one of the lucky few, but it cost me years to work up mental the death of Philip.