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Personal info

Full name
CHALUPA, Lawrence F
Date of birth
14 May 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska
Hometown
Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
37126949
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
25th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized),
4th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 March 1945
Place of death
In the Oberweis area, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 10 32

Immediate family

Members
Ludvik Chalupa (father)
Annie H. (Huss) Chalupa (mother)
Robert H. Chalupa (brother)
Virginia A. Chalupa (sister)
Garold E. Chalupa (brother)
Ludvik Chalupa (brother)
Jo Ann Chalupa (sister)
Laverna (Woods) Chalupa (wife)

More information

Sgt Lawrence F. Chalupa graduated from Sargent High School in 1939 and taught at the Mills and at Coburg schools.

He enlisted at Fort Crook, Nebraska, on 9 June 1942.

Sgt Chalupa is remembered at Saint Mary’s Cemetery in Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska with a memorial marker.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census / Chalupa Family Tree / Headstone and Interment Record, https://www.newspapers.com – The Nebraska State Journal, March 29 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery, Walking the Past, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks, 1880-2012 – Sargent High School 1938