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Personal info

Full name
SVEC, Robert James
Date of birth
20 August 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Colfax County, Nebraska
Hometown
Schuyler, Colfax County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
37748205
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
222nd Infantry Regiment,
42nd Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 February 1945
Place of death
Haguenau, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Emil P. Svec (father)
Mary Svec (mother)
Adelen Svec (sister)
Theodore J. Svec (brother)
Stanley Svec (brother)
Matilda M. Svec (sister)
Jerry F. Svec (brother)
Marie Svec (sister)
Emil J. Svec (brother)
Adolph F. Svec (brother)
Raymond J. Svec (brother)
Evelyn A. Svec (sister)
Marcella Svec (sister)

More information

Pvt Robert J. Svec attended high school for four years and worked on a farm before he enlisted at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on 28 July 1944. He was sent overseas in January 1945.
He is remembered at the Schuyler Cemetery in Schuyler, Colfax County, Nebraska.
His brother Adolph F. Svec was also declared Missing in Action during the war and is remembered at the Walls of Missing in at the American Military Cemetery in Manilla.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com – Marcella Legler, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com – 1930 Census / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, www.findagrave.com – Loren Bender / Russ Pickett

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Frogman / Sally, www.ancestry.com – Hawaiiko