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Personal info

Full name
NOWICK, Walter
Date of birth
10 September 1914
Age
29
Place of birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31131205
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
D Company,
2nd Battalion,
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
16 February 1944
Place of death
Anzio, Italy

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
B 9 12

More information

Pvt Walter Nowick enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 20 May 1942. He was temporally interred at Ardennes because his family requested for him to be buried in Poland. Since negotiations with the Polish government were of no result and the program for the return of WW 2 dead expired on 31 December 1951, it was decided that the internment at Ardennes would be permanent.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ww2-airborne.us, WWII Draft Card,

Photo source: Peter Schouteten