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Personal info

Full name
YADLOSKY, Walter
Date of birth
February 1918
Age
27
Place of birth
Coal, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33013806
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
Platoon Sergeant
Unit
A Company,
68th Tank Battalion,
6th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 April 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Dinglestadt, Eichenfeld, Thuringen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
C 12 25

Immediate family

Members
Charles Yadlosky (father)
Mary Yadlosky (mother)
Paul Yadlosky (brother)
John Yadlosky (brother)
Dennis Yadlosky (brother)
Julia Yadlosky (sister)
Stella Yadlosky (sister)
Nellie Yadlosky (sister)
Theodore Yadlosky (brother)

More information

S/Sgt Walter Yadlosky attended high school for two years and worked as a dyer in a silk mill in Shamoikin, Pennsylvania.

He enlisted in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 6 April 1942 and was sent overseas in January 1943.

Source of information: André Koch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1910/1940 Census / Army Enlistment Records, U.S. City Directories, 1936-1941, http://www.super6th.org/tank68/index.html, 68th Tank Battalion Unit History

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Paul Warp Collection, Shamokin News Dispatch - 24 May 1945