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Personal info

Full name
KOZEN, Joseph Eugene
Date of birth
19 August 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Hometown
Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35248735
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
119th Infantry Regiment,
30th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
28 November 1944
Place of death
Inden/Altdorf, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
I 6 11

Immediate family

Members
Joseph Kozen (father)
Angela E. (Sczerowski) Kozen (mother)
Marie Kozen (sister)
Eleanor Kozen (sister)

More information

Pvt Joseph E. Kozen graduated from East Technical High School in January 1944.

He enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 25 March 1944.

His father Joseph Korzeniewski was born in Lublin, Poland and naturalized in 1919. He changed his name to Kozen.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees / Headstone and Interment Record, www.oldhickory30th.com

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / Patti Johnson, Cleveland Plain Dealer, East Technical High School January 1944