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Personal info

Full name
KOKEN, Joseph James "Jimmy"
Date of birth
16 September 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Duquesne, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Duquesne, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33291293
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
393rd Infantry Regiment,
99th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 March 1945
Place of death
North of Cologne, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 13 50

Immediate family

Members
Stephan Koken (father)
Anna (Sabol) Koken (mother
Mary Koken (sister)
Anna P. Koken (sister)
Elizabeth Koken (sister)
Helen A. Koken (sister)

More information

T/5 Joseph J. Koken graduated from Duquesne High School in 1940 and was employed at the Christy Park plant of the National Tube Co.

He enlisted in Greensburg, Pennsylvania on 13 August 1942 and was sent overseas in September 1944.

His father was born in Czecho-Slovakia as Stepan Kochan and Immigrated to the United States in 1911. His mother was also an emigrant from Czecho-Slovakia.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, www.newspapers.com - The Pittsburgh Press

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.newspapers.com - The Pittsburgh Press