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Personal info

Full name
GOETZ, Robert Paul
Date of birth
13 July 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Saranac Lake, Essex and Franklin County, New York
Hometown
Monroe County, New York

Military service

Service number
42122458
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
320th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 April 1945
Place of death
Gross Rosenburg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
E 1 13

Immediate family

Members
George E. Goetz (father)
Lillian K. (Dupree) Goetz (mother)
Edward S. Goetz (brother)
Margarit V. Goetz (sister)
William P. Goetz (brother)
Corinan M. Goetz (sister)
Gloria (Rock) Goetz (wife)

More information

Pfc Robert P. Goetz graduated from Saranac Lake High School in 1938.

He enlisted in Utica, New York on 20 July 1944.

Robert loved to play pinball at the corner drugstore in his hometown of Sarnac Lake. When his descendants visit his grave, they leave spare change at his gravesite, in his memory.

He left behind a wife and two year old child.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Amy Mortensen, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1930 Census / Jagus Family Tree, www.coulthart.com/134, NYS Historic Newspapers - Plattsburgh press-Republican., May 5, 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Amy Mortensen, Marjo Senden