US PARAS Bucior, Bernard G.

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Bucior ​

• FORENAME

Bernard G. ​

• UNIT

502 Parachute Infantry Regiment (Company C) ​

• RANK

First Lieutenant ​

• NUMBER

0-1294972 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

7th June 1944 ​

• AGE

• GRAVESITE

Normandy American Cemetery,France Tablets of the Missing ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Hartford,Connecticut​

entered service 8.9.1941​

Second Lieutenant 1.10.1942​

award Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster (posthumous)​

WIA 7.6.1944 Haut Fornel,Normandy​

lost when ship evacuating him hit mine in English Channel ​

note​

his family insist he KIA on the beach.​

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