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Personal info

Full name
MUCHA, Edward Stanley
Date of birth
12 June 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
Hometown
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut

Military service

Service number
31405038
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
104th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 November 1944
Place of death
Albestroff, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 17 105

Immediate family

Members
Andrew Mucha (father)
Rosalia (Bogacz) Mucha (mother)
Theodore Mucha (brother)
Estelle R. (Tercyok) Mucha (wife)
Edward Mucha (son)

More information

T/5 Edward S. Mucha attended the New Haven High School and was employed at the G and O Manufacturing Company before he enlisted in New Haven, Connecticut on 23 August 1943. He was sent overseas in July 1944.

He was killed by small arms fire.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Limey, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Mucha Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, After Action Report 26th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - OCW JR
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - OCW JR