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Personal info

Full name
KOPETSKI, Harry Roger "Skeets"
Date of birth
28 October 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana
Hometown
Cascade County, Montana

Military service

Service number
39615869
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
759th Field Artillery Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
14 April 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
John Kopetski (father)
Leona (Schneider) Kopetski (mother)
Eleanor A. Kopetski (sister)
John F. Kopetski (brother)
Norman A. Kopetski (brother)
Kathryn M. Kopetski (sister)
Esther K. Kopetski (sister)
Willard A. Kopetski (brother)
Gerald W. Kopetski (brother)
Joseph V. Kopetski (brother)

More information

Pfc Harry R. Kopetski gratuated from Great Falls High School in Great Falls, Montana with the class of 1940. He worked for the Great Northern Railroad.

He enlisted in Butte, Montana on 5 February 1943.

Pfc Kopetski was killed when clearing a minefield.

Source of information: FOHF, Carla Mans, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men

Photo source: FOHF, www.ancestry.com - Great Falls High School School Yearbook 1940, Harry Meyer