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Personal info

Full name
PRYCIAK, Theodore Michael
Date of birth
22 December 1922
Age
21
Place of birth
Poland
Hometown
Morea, Anderson County, Tennessee

Military service

Service number
33617215
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
324th Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 November 1944
Place of death
Avricourt, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 39 4

Immediate family

Members
William Pryciak (father)
Anna Pryciak (mother)
Jennie Pryciak (sister)

More information

Sgt Theodore M. Pryciak attended high school for four years and was a miner before he enlisted in Allentown, Pennsylvania on 22 February 1943. He was sent overseas in October 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com – Potsville Republican 6 December 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy, www.newspapers.com – Potsville Republican 6 December 1944