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Personal info

Full name
KRIVANEC, Clarke Eugene
Date of birth
5 March 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Rupert, Minidoka County, Idaho
Hometown
Rupert, Minidoka County, Idaho

Military service

Service number
39908133
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
112th Infantry Regiment,
28th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of St. Vith, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
E 4 30

Immediate family

Members
Joseph A. Krivanec (father)
Blanche (Kingsford) Krivanec (mother)
Doris M. Krivanec (sister)

More information

Pfc Clarke E. Krivanec graduated from Rupert High School.

He enlisted in Pocatello, Idaho on 21 January 1943 and was selected for the Army Specialized Training Program (A.S.T.P.). He studied at George Washington University in St Louis.

Per a letter from an Army buddy to his parents "we were captured by the Germans on Christmas Eve, 1944. Krivanec was wounded in the left leg and was left at a German aid station while the others were marched on to the prison camps."

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Arent Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, The Times News 7 January 1946, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Luxembourg American Cemetery