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Personal info

Full name
KAPACIEWICZ, George Jr
Date of birth
1917
Age
unknown
Place of birth
New Jersey
Hometown
Warren County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
06982519
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ & HQ Company,
2nd Battalion,
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 September 1944
Place of death
Groesbeek, Wylerbaan, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
N 9 9

Immediate family

Members
George Kopaciewicz Sr. (father)
Lafry (Polna) Kopaciewicz (mother)
Mary Kopaciewicz (sister)
Anna Kopaciewicz (sister)
Pauline P. Kopaciewicz (sister)
Julia O. Kopaciewicz (sister)
William Kopaciewicz (brother)
John S. Kopaciewicz (brother)
Helen Kopaciewicz (sister)
Frances E. Kopaciewicz (sister)

More information

George Kapaciewicz Jr. attended Phillipsburg High School and worked on a farm.

He joined the Regular Army on 9 February 1940 and attended Ordnance School at West Point Military Academie where he received training in the Quartermaster Corps after which he volunteered for the paratroopers.

He was reported wounded in action in July 1943 while serving in Sicily for which he was awarded the Purple Heart Medal a first time.

The Military spelled his name wrong. It should be Kopaciewicz. Consequently, for about 50 years after the war, his family did not know where his remains (if any) rested. Then, with the advent of the internet and searchable databases, his niece, Mrs Linda Kopaciewicz, was conducting some family research and on a whim entered the "wrong" spelling of his name and found what they were looking for.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, www.wwiimemorial.com. www.fold3.com, www.marketgarden.com

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Lynn Falk - niece - courtesey of Kathy McDermott, William Kopaciewicz Jr - nephew