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PVT Phillip Fechuch

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PVT Phillip Fechuch Veteran

Birth
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA
Death
6 Dec 1944 (aged 22)
Koslar, Kreis Düren, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Burial
Margraten, Eijsden-Margraten Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands Add to Map
Plot
Tablets of the Missing
Memorial ID
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Army Service No. (ASN): #32977423
Enlistment Date: 06/17/1943
Entered the Service From: New York
116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Official Declaration of Death is December 6th, 1945.

Phillip Fechuch is listed under Finding Of Death in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for New York County, New York.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, lists his DOB as 12/05/1922. U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, lists his year of birth as 1923.

Information below gleaned from Newspapers.com as found on ancestry.com:
El Paso Herald-Post (El Paso, Texas), Saturday, February 14th, 1942, Page 12

HE'LL JOIN THE CCC
Phillip Fechuch, who said he was 17 but who looked more like 14, will get help in joining the Civilian Conservation Corps. Phillip, who hitch-hiked here from St. Louis was charged with vagrancy.

***I would like to thank Fred Find A Grave ID 46792340 for adding his photo to this memorial***

***I would like to thank KeeperOfThePast Find A Grave Id 48267852 for updating the place of death information on this memorial in addition to adding their photo of Phillip to it***

***I would like to thank BKP Find A Grave ID for linking family members to this memorial***
Army Service No. (ASN): #32977423
Enlistment Date: 06/17/1943
Entered the Service From: New York
116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division
Awards: Bronze Star, Purple Heart
Official Declaration of Death is December 6th, 1945.

Phillip Fechuch is listed under Finding Of Death in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for New York County, New York.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, lists his DOB as 12/05/1922. U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946, lists his year of birth as 1923.

Information below gleaned from Newspapers.com as found on ancestry.com:
El Paso Herald-Post (El Paso, Texas), Saturday, February 14th, 1942, Page 12

HE'LL JOIN THE CCC
Phillip Fechuch, who said he was 17 but who looked more like 14, will get help in joining the Civilian Conservation Corps. Phillip, who hitch-hiked here from St. Louis was charged with vagrancy.

***I would like to thank Fred Find A Grave ID 46792340 for adding his photo to this memorial***

***I would like to thank KeeperOfThePast Find A Grave Id 48267852 for updating the place of death information on this memorial in addition to adding their photo of Phillip to it***

***I would like to thank BKP Find A Grave ID for linking family members to this memorial***


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  • Maintained by: Eric Ackerman
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 6, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56298626/phillip-fechuch: accessed ), memorial page for PVT Phillip Fechuch (5 Dec 1922–6 Dec 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56298626, citing Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial, Margraten, Eijsden-Margraten Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands; Maintained by Eric Ackerman (contributor 48445240).