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Personal info

Full name
KOBAR, Steve J
Date of birth
19 July 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Throop, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33950421
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
K Company,
3rd Battalion,
318th Infantry Regiment,
80th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 February 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Kruchten-Hommerdingen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 5 54

Immediate family

Members
Stephen Kobar (father)
Julia (Szabok) Kobar (mother)
Mary Kobar (sister)
Paul Kobar (brother)
Helen Kobar (sister)
Margaret Kobar (sister)
Katherine Kobar (sister)
John Kobar (brother)
Julius Kobar (brother)
Rosella Kobar (sister)
Peter Kobar (brother)
Barber Kobar (brother)

More information

Pvt Steve J. Kobar attended high school for one year and worked in a glass producing factory before he enlisted in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on 23 June 1944. He was sent overseas in December 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his face.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card File / U.S. Draft Cards Young Men, www.80thdivision.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery / Jaap Vermeer