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Personal info

Full name
FOLENIUS, Harry E
Date of birth
1919
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Ohio
Hometown
Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
20507850
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ Company,
2nd Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 February 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Stockem-Schankweiler, west of Bitburg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
I 4 26

Immediate family

Members
Lawrence Folenius (father)
Rebecca (Davis) Folenius (mother)
Raymond Folenius (brother)
Frances Folenius (sister)
Albert Folenius (brother)

More information

T/5 Harry E. Folenius attended Roosevelt Junior High School. He was a motor vehicle mechanic.

Lt Col Leslie Ball from HQ Company intended to set up an observation post in a pillbox. T/5 Harry E. Folenius had to set up a phone system inside the pillbox. A German artillery shell scored a direct hit on the pillbox. The doors were wide open so the men inside could set up the phone. Folenius had been killed instantly by the concussion of the blast.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S. City Directories, "A footsoldier for Patton" - Michael C. Bilder/James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO, www.newspaperarchive.com - Hamilton Daily News Journal

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery