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Personal info

Full name
BLASTIC, Clarence Joseph
Date of birth
21 February 1913
Age
32
Place of birth
Whiting, Lake County, Indiana
Hometown
Whiting, Lake County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
35044630
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
326th Airborne Engineer Battalion,
101st Airborne Division,
2nd Platoon
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
12 April 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
E 18 13

Immediate family

Members
Joseph Blastic (father)
Caroline (Borovsky) Blastic (mother)
Irene D. Blastic (sister)
Florence Blastic (sister)
Lillian M. Blastic (sister)

More information

Sgt Clarence J. Blastic completed one year of high school was employed by the Ex-Cell-O Corporation in Detroit.

He entered the service in 1942. After jump training in the states, he went overseas with one of the first airborne units to leave the states. He was a member of the famed 101st airborne infantry, which dropped behind enemy lines to open the invasions of Italy, Sicily and Normandy. Sgt Blastic had been overseas two years.

He died while building bridges in Germany.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.acrhives.gov, www.w2-airborne.us, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Family Tree, www.newspapers.com - The Munster Times

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet / Thomas Clark, www.newspapers.com - The Munster Times