US PARAS Bucior, Bernard George

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Bucior ​

• FORENAME

Bernard George​

• UNIT

502 Parachute Infantry Regiment (Company C) ​

• RANK

First Lieutenant ​

• NUMBER

0-1294972 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

7th June 1944 ​

• AGE

24​

• GRAVESITE

Normandy American Cemetery, France Tablets of the Missing ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Hartford, Connecticut​

born 15.06.1919 Hartford, Connecticut, USA​

father George M. Bucior (1892-1967)​

mother Katherine C. (nee Czneska) Bucior (1893-1959)​

4 years high school​

civil occupation Athletes, sports instructors and sports officials​

employed by Witherfield Country Club​

single without dependents upon enlistment​

resided 118 South Street, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut (draft card)​

16.10.1940 draft card Hartford, Connecticut​

entered service 8.9.1941, Hartford, Connecticut (service number 31052074)​

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.​

Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA. Memorial Section K, Site 345 (Memorial)​

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