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Personal info

Full name
BROCKOVICH, Steve
Date of birth
23 June 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Rock Springs, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
Hometown
White Pine County, Nevada

Military service

Service number
39908350
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
146th Engineer Combat Battalion
Awards
Bronze Star

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
1 April 1945
Place of death
unknown

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
I 17 14

Immediate family

Members
John Brockovich (father)
Mary Crockovich (mother)
Mike Brockovich (brother)
Ann Brockovich (sister)
John Brockovich (brother)
Rose Brockovich (sister)
Nick Brockovich (brother)
Joe Brockovich (brother)

More information

Pfc Steve Brockovich attended 2 years of high school and was employed at the Nevada Consolidated Copper Corporation.

He enlisted on 28 January 1943 at Salt Lake City, Utah.

Pfc Brockovich was killed while driving a captured BMW motorcycle. He belatedly noticed that the bridge ahead had been blown and sailed over the edge. One of the cars he was racing followed him over the edge and fatally crushed him.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Patricia van Casteren, Astrid van Erp, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census, www.archives.gov, "Journey with the Combat Engineers of WWII" - Lt Wesley Ross

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Laura Phillips