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Personal info

Full name
KOHANKE, Donald Albert
Date of birth
25 January 1911
Age
34
Place of birth
Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio
Hometown
Ottawa County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35348554
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
414th Infantry Regiment,
104th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
31 March 1945
Place of death
Medebach, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
J 17 17

Immediate family

Members
Edward Kohanke (father)
Anna B. (Michel) Kohanke mother)
William Korhanke (brother)
Lydia B. Kohanke (sister)
Edward Kohanke (brother)
Dorothy Kohanke (twin sister)

More information

S/Sgt Donald A. Kohanke graduated from Port Clinton High School whre he was a basketball star and worked at employed at the United States Gypsum Company.

He enlisted in Toledo, Ohio on 19 November 1942 and was sent overseas in August 1944. He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal a first time for a hand injury.

S/Sgt Kohanke is remembered at Lakeview Cemetery in Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census / WWII Enlistment Record / Headstone and Interment Record, www.newspapers.com - The Sandusky Register, Toledo Blade - 27 April 1945

Photo source: Toledo Blade - 27 April 1945, Port Clinton High School Yearbook via Angelique Aupperlée, Edward H. Powers, nephew of Jerome J. Handman / Ken Hodge, nephew of Wilfred L. Hodge, Ottawa County News Herald - 27 April 1945, www.findagrave.com - Eric