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Personal info

Full name
ZEITEK, Stephen James
Date of birth
17 November 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Bayonne, Hudson County, New Jersey
Hometown
Queens, Queens County, New York

Military service

Service number
42137191
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
61st Armored Infantry Battalion,
10th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 March 1945
Place of death
Trier, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
G 9 27

Immediate family

Members
John Zeitek (father)
Caroline (Makizycha) Zeitek (mother)
Peter Zeitek (brother)
Muriel E. (Smith) Zeitek (wife)
Carol L. Zeitek (daughter)

More information

Pfc Stephen J. Zeitek attended high school for two years and was employed at the New York Life Insurance Company before he enlisted at Camp Upton Yaphank, New York, on 19 June 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his stomach.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Carol L. Stowe, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Zeitek Family Tree / Rosenmerkel Family Tree / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.10tharmored.com, www.findagrave.com
Photo source: www.wwiimemorial.com - Carol L. Stowe