US PARAS Bohlken, Oliver Janssen

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Bohlken ​

• FORENAME

Oliver Janssen​

• UNIT

504 Parachute Infantry Regiment (HQ Company 2 Bn) ​

• RANK

Corporal ​

• NUMBER

17043134 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

8th January 1945 ​

• AGE

25​

• GRAVESITE

Lawn Ridge Cemetery, Coleridge, Nebraska, USA​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Cedar County, Nebraska​

born 06.07.1919 Coleridge, Nebraska, USA​

father George Wilhelm Bohlken (1889-1985)​

mother Maria Sophia (nee Janssen) Bohlken (1896-1997)​

grammar school education​

civil occupation Farm hand​

employed by Henry Menssen, Coleridge, Nebraska​

single without dependents upon enlistment​

resided Route #2, Hartington, Cedar County, Nebraska​

01.07.1941 draft card Hartington, Nebraska​

31.01.1942 entered service Fort Des Moines, Iowa​

07.1943 WIA Sicily​

brother Gerald Bohlken KIA 12.06.1944​

KIA Belgium ​

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