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Personal info

Full name
GILEZAN, Joseph
Date of birth
2 February 1915
Age
30
Place of birth
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
Hometown
Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky

Military service

Service number
35837512
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
417th Infantry Regiment,
76th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 March 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Karl, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
I 9 17

Immediate family

Members
Traika Gilezan (father)
Petra (Ursulescu) Gilezan (mother)
Peter R. Gilezan (brother)
Viola M. Gilezan (sister)
Anna M. Gilezan (sister)
John Gilezan (brother)
Samuel Gilezan (brother)
Elizabeth P. (Murphy) Gilezan (wife)
Doris E. Gilezan (daughter)
Joseph L. Gilezan (son)

More information

Pfc Joseph Gilezan was married to Elizabeth Pearl Murphy on 14 September 1935.

He was employed by the Standard Sanitary before he enlisted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 3 May 1944.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1920/1930/1940 Census / Indiana Marriages 1810-2001, www.newspapers.com - Lincoln The Courier-Journal - 13 April 1945
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, The Courier-Journal - 13 April 1945