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Personal info

Full name
KARICH, Louis N
Date of birth
14 November 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
St. Louis, Minnesota
Hometown
Aurora, St. Louis County, Minnesota

Military service

Service number
37564775
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
139th Airborne Engineer Battalion,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
24 March 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Nick Karich (father)
Mary (Klepac) Karich (mother)
Mike Karich (brother)
Rudolph Karich (brother)
Joseph Karich (brother)
Mildred Karich (sister)
Kate Karich (sister)
Sam Karich (brother)
Anna Karich (sister)
Peter Karich (brother)
Frank Karich (brother)

More information

The area that Louis' family was from, The Mesabi Iron Range of Minnesota, contributed greatly to the war efforts in WWI and WWII.
In the iron it supplied and in the young men who served.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Bill Sandvig, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com,
www.ww2-airborne.us, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Bill Sandvig (nephew)