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Personal info

Full name
LECHOWICZ, Edwin Paul
Date of birth
9 December 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
Hometown
Hartford County, Connecticut

Military service

Service number
O1324028
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
313th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
19 December 1944
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
A 33 12

Immediate family

Members
Paul Lechowicz (father)
Barbara L. Lechowicz (mother)
Stanley Lechowicz (brother)
Frederick Lechowicz (brother)
Henry Lechowicz (brother)
Florence Lechowicz (sister)

More information

2nd Lt Edwin P. Lechowicz was a graduate of Hartford Public High School in 1937.

He had been a member of the Connecticut National Guard for about a year prior it being federalized in 1941. He went to the Pacific theater with the 169th Regiment where he was stationed for 15 months. Returning to the States he was graduated from Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning with a commission of second lieutenant 21 August 1943.

Prior to joining the service he was a salesman for the Hartford Remington Rand office machine agency.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil / 1940 Census, The Hartford Courant, 10 November 1945, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, The Hartford Courant, 10 November 1945; Hartford High School yearbook, 1937