Service # 37563376
Unit 2nd Ranger Battalion
Rank Private First Class U.S. Army
Entered Service From Minnesota
Purple Heart
He was one of the new replacements the 2nd Ranger BN received after their actions at Pointe du Hoc. PFC Lukovsky had joined the battalion just before it moved into Brittany to enter the campaign to liberate the French city of Brest (Festung Brest). A series of attacks and feints designed to isolate the seaside village of Le Conquet from Brest by seizing the highway, he was killed during a German night time attack while holding the line. Throughout the two days before his death while under the command of Captain Ed Arnold and Captain Duke Slater, Ranger, Companies A,B,C,D and E, 2 Battalion Rangers advanced several miles to complete their objective. That night the Battalion's line was so thin due to previous losses that only one man was assigned to each foxhole. Alone in their fox holes, now for the first time, many of the replacements faced night combat, likely hand to hand. Around midnight the Germans attacked and the Rangers held and even the replacements gave a good accounting of themselves. PFC Lukovsky bullet-riddled body was found still in his foxhole surrounded by six dead Germans. Source: The Last Hill, the epic story of a Ranger Battalion and the battle that defined WWII by Drury and Clavin, published 2022.
Unit 2nd Ranger Battalion
Rank Private First Class U.S. Army
Entered Service From Minnesota
Purple Heart
He was one of the new replacements the 2nd Ranger BN received after their actions at Pointe du Hoc. PFC Lukovsky had joined the battalion just before it moved into Brittany to enter the campaign to liberate the French city of Brest (Festung Brest). A series of attacks and feints designed to isolate the seaside village of Le Conquet from Brest by seizing the highway, he was killed during a German night time attack while holding the line. Throughout the two days before his death while under the command of Captain Ed Arnold and Captain Duke Slater, Ranger, Companies A,B,C,D and E, 2 Battalion Rangers advanced several miles to complete their objective. That night the Battalion's line was so thin due to previous losses that only one man was assigned to each foxhole. Alone in their fox holes, now for the first time, many of the replacements faced night combat, likely hand to hand. Around midnight the Germans attacked and the Rangers held and even the replacements gave a good accounting of themselves. PFC Lukovsky bullet-riddled body was found still in his foxhole surrounded by six dead Germans. Source: The Last Hill, the epic story of a Ranger Battalion and the battle that defined WWII by Drury and Clavin, published 2022.
Service # 37563376
Unit 2nd Ranger Battalion
Rank Private First Class U.S. Army
Entered Service From Minnesota
Purple Heart
He was one of the new replacements the 2nd Ranger BN received after their actions at Pointe du Hoc. PFC Lukovsky had joined the battalion just before it moved into Brittany to enter the campaign to liberate the French city of Brest (Festung Brest). A series of attacks and feints designed to isolate the seaside village of Le Conquet from Brest by seizing the highway, he was killed during a German night time attack while holding the line. Throughout the two days before his death while under the command of Captain Ed Arnold and Captain Duke Slater, Ranger, Companies A,B,C,D and E, 2 Battalion Rangers advanced several miles to complete their objective. That night the Battalion's line was so thin due to previous losses that only one man was assigned to each foxhole. Alone in their fox holes, now for the first time, many of the replacements faced night combat, likely hand to hand. Around midnight the Germans attacked and the Rangers held and even the replacements gave a good accounting of themselves. PFC Lukovsky bullet-riddled body was found still in his foxhole surrounded by six dead Germans. Source: The Last Hill, the epic story of a Ranger Battalion and the battle that defined WWII by Drury and Clavin, published 2022.
Unit 2nd Ranger Battalion
Rank Private First Class U.S. Army
Entered Service From Minnesota
Purple Heart
He was one of the new replacements the 2nd Ranger BN received after their actions at Pointe du Hoc. PFC Lukovsky had joined the battalion just before it moved into Brittany to enter the campaign to liberate the French city of Brest (Festung Brest). A series of attacks and feints designed to isolate the seaside village of Le Conquet from Brest by seizing the highway, he was killed during a German night time attack while holding the line. Throughout the two days before his death while under the command of Captain Ed Arnold and Captain Duke Slater, Ranger, Companies A,B,C,D and E, 2 Battalion Rangers advanced several miles to complete their objective. That night the Battalion's line was so thin due to previous losses that only one man was assigned to each foxhole. Alone in their fox holes, now for the first time, many of the replacements faced night combat, likely hand to hand. Around midnight the Germans attacked and the Rangers held and even the replacements gave a good accounting of themselves. PFC Lukovsky bullet-riddled body was found still in his foxhole surrounded by six dead Germans. Source: The Last Hill, the epic story of a Ranger Battalion and the battle that defined WWII by Drury and Clavin, published 2022.
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