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Personal info

Full name
ZUKOSKY, John Charles
Date of birth
24 March 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Eynon, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Wayne County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
32476690
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
401st Glider Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 December 1944
Place of death
Near Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
D 10 4

Immediate family

Members
Joseph Zukosky (father)
Mary M. (Kvetkosky) Zukosky (mother)
Joseph Zukosky (brother)
Edward Zukosky (brother)
Mary Zukosky (sister)
Teresa Zukosky (sister)
Josephine Zukosky (sister)
Frances C. (Rivenburg) Zukosky (wife)
Anthony J. Zukosky (son)

More information

Pfc John C. Zukosky and worked in manufacture of knit goods.

He enlisted in Binghamton, New York on 22 September 1942.He was sent overseas in September 1943 and took part in the D-Day invasion on 6 June 1944.

He was wounded by shrapnel in Holland on 9 October 1944 and hospitalized in France until returning to duty in November

Pfc Zukosky was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Grand Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: Peter Schouteten