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Personal info

Full name
HEIKKALA, Thomas B "Tom"
Date of birth
29 September 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Trout Creek, Oakland County, Michigan
Hometown
Interior, Ontonagon County, Michigan

Military service

Service number
36840314
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
G Company,
2nd Battalion,
358th Infantry Regiment,
90th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 February 1945
Place of death
Stupbach, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
F 1 11

Immediate family

Members
Sifried Heikkala (father)
Anna G. (Heikkanen) Heikkala (mother)
Reino Heikkala (brother)
Uno Heikkala (brother)
Rudolph K. Heikkala (brother)
Ellen Heikkala (sister)
Urho A. Heikkala (brother)
Toivo Heikkala (brother)
Arvi Heikkala (brother)
Viola Heikkala (sister)
Elizabeth (Genore) Heikkala (wife)
Patsy A. Heikkala (daughter)

More information

Pfc Thomas B. Heikkala enlisted on 24 January 1944 and went overseas in August 1944.

He died from a direct hit from a high explosive shell.

Both his parents immigrated from Finland in 1899.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1940 Census / Michigan Marriage Records / Sweeney Family Tree, www.newspapers.com – Ironwood Daily Globe Michigan - 17 February 1945

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.ancestry.com - Sweeney