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Personal info

Full name
BULHACK, Mitchel
Date of birth
7 November 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Maspeth, Queens County, New York
Hometown
Queens, Queens County, New York

Military service

Service number
32216851
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
H Company,
3rd Battalion,
505th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
24 September 1945
Place of death
Molenweg
Groesbeek, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Dimitry Bulhack (father)
Agatha Bulhack (mother)
Peter Bulhack (brother)

More information

T/5 Mitchel Bulhack's parents were immigrants from Russia and named him Dimitry but he went by the name of Mitchel.

He enlisted at Camp Upton, New York on 16 February 1942.

T/5 Bulhack was officially declared dead one day and one year after he was reported missing in action.

His dogtags were discovered in October 1991 in the vicinity of the Molenweg in Groesbeek.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, Raf Dyckmans, WWIIMemorial.com, Fold3.com, www.Marketgarden.com, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 Census, IDPF

Photo source: www.marketgarden.com