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Personal info

Full name
PARTEKO, Eugene James
Date of birth
7 October 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Tooele, Tooele County, Utah
Hometown
Lebanon, Madison County, New York

Military service

Service number
32025091
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
314th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
15 October 1944
Place of death
Near Deuxville, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 30 7

Immediate family

Members
Louis F. Parteko (father)
Mary (Jankovic) Parteko (mother)
Olga M. Parteko (sister)
Mary Parteko (sister)
Lewis F. Parteko (brother)
Henry Parteko (brother)
Samuel P. Parteko (brother)
Albert F. Parteko (brother)
Frances Parteko (sister)

More information

Sgt Eugene J. Parteko attended high school for one year and worked on the family farm before he enlisted in Syracuse, New York on 27 November 1940.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to the stomach.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Frances Parteko Curtis, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Cordock Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, Combat History 314th Infantry Regiment
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy