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| UNIT:
449th Field Artillery Battalion,
14th Armored Division |
| RANK:
2nd Lieutenant |
| BORN:
May 20, 1918* |
| WHERE:
Caseyville, St. Clair Co., IL |
| DIED:
January 14, 1945 |
| WHERE:
France |
CAUSE
OF DEATH: Killed in Action near
Hatten-Rittershoffen, France
During battle of the Bulge |
| BURIED:
Epinal American Cemetery -
Epinal, France |
| MARKER:
Military |
|
|
 Mr. And Mrs. William
Palecek, 302 North Morrison Avenue, have been
informed that their son, Lt. Robert Lee Palecek
was killed in action on January 14. The wire,
received in Collinsville Thursday morning,
January 25, did not state where Lt. Palecek met
his death, but it is known that he was with the
Seventh Army in France.Lt. Palecek was born in Caseyville
Township on May 20, twenty-seven years ago. He
graduated from the Collinsville Township High
School and the Rankin Trade School in St. Louis.
Before his induction, he was employed at the
Roxana Refinery.
He entered the
service three years ago next month, and was
assigned to the Field Artillery Receiving Officer
Candidates Training at Ft. Still, Oklahoma. He
graduated and received his commission in 1942.
Palecek was sent overseas in October 1944,
arriving in France, where he remained as far as
his parents know.
Besides his
parents, Lt. Palecek is survived by two sisters,
Catherine and Noraldene Palecek and one
brother,William.
Note: The above
headstone, placed in St. John's Cemetery in
Collinsville is inscribed on the back of his
parent's marker, and is inscribed with a year of
birth as 1917. Robert was laid to rest at Epinal
American Cemetery in Epinal, France as noted in
the first headstone.
|
Lt. Robert
Palecek Killed January 14
