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Personal info

Full name
MLAKAR, Joe Carl
Date of birth
15 May 1913
Age
31
Place of birth
Washoe, Carbon County, Montana
Hometown
Red Lodge, Carbon County, Montana

Military service

Service number
39615914
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
359th Infantry Regiment,
90th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 September 1944
Place of death
Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
G 3 28

Immediate family

Members
Joe Mlakar (father)
Frances R. (Srichel) Mlakar (mother)
Tony Mlakar (brother)
Frank Mlakar (brother)
Frances Mlakar (sister)
Theodore Mlakar (brother)

More information

Pfc Joe C. Mlakar was a miner at the Eagle Coal Company before he enlisted in Butte, Montana on 6 February 1943.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Randy Mlakar Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1930 Census, www.findagrave.com

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