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Personal info

Full name
METRO, Stanley
Date of birth
7 May 1911
Age
33
Place of birth
Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen, Hungary
Hometown
Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida

Military service

Service number
34798671
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
141st Infantry Regiment,
36th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 October 1944
Place of death
Biffontaine, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 27 39

Immediate family

Members
Frank Metro Sr. (father)
Gisella M. (Dilszky) Metro (mother)
Frank Metro Jr. (brother)
Ethel C. (Mooney) Metro (wife)

More information

Pvt Stanley Metro attended college and was a retail manager before he enlisted at Camp Blanding, Florida on 17 December 1943. He was sent overseas on 23 July 1944.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his chest and face.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, https://texasmilitaryforcesmuseum.org/, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Sliveckovcov Tree / Florida Marriage Records / WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com – Andy, www.newspapers.com - The Tampa Times - 7 February 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com – Andy, www.newspapers.com - The Tampa Tribune - 2 December 1944/The Tampa Times - 7 February 1945