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Personal info

Full name
SIECKMAN, Donald Dean
Date of birth
14 August 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Tobias, Saline County, Nebraska
Hometown
Wayne County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
37487650
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
747th Tank Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 November 1944
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
B 1 16

Immediate family

Members
Charles A. Sieckman (father)
Martha M. (Most) Sieckman (mother)
Eldo C. Sieckman (brother)
Eugene A. Sieckman (brother)
Robert Sieckman (brother)
Angeline Sieckman (sister)
Marlene Sieckman (sister)

More information

Cpl Donald D. Sieckman graduated from Wayne High School in 1941. He attended Wayne College in 1941-42 and then went to Washington, where he was employed in a navy supply depot for a year.

He enlisted on 28 November 1943 at Fort Knox, Kentucky and was sent overseas on 29 August 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, Hans Wijnands - Nebraska Signal, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Robert Sieckman, www.findagrave.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Record / Huxhold Family Tree, 1940 Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Hans Wijnands - Nebraska Signal