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Personal info

Full name
LEBEDNICK, John Charles
Date of birth
17 July 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31264225
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
25 December 1944
Place of death
In the area of Rochelinval, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
D 28 19

Immediate family

Members
John Lebednickas (uncle)
Michael Dirsa (granduncle)

More information

Pvt John C. Lebednick graduated from Moody Junior High School and Lowell Trade School and was employed at the Megowen Educator Company.

He enlisted at Fort Devens, Massachusetts on 27 May 1943 and was sent overseas in December 1943.

Five monts after he was reported missing in action in Belgium, Pvt John C. Lebednick was listed as killed in action, according to a war department telegram, received by his grand uncle, Michael Dirsa.

Source of information: Tjarco Schuurman, www.archives.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ww2-airborne.us, www.ancestry.com - The Lowell Sun 29 May 1945, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com - The Lowell Sun 29 May 1945