Plebanek, Frank Anthony, PFC

Deceased

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Service Details

Last Rank
Private First Class

Last Service Branch
Infantry

Last Primary MOS
345-Truck Driver Light

Last MOS Group
Infantry

Primary Unit
1944-1945, 345, 1st Allied Airborne Army

Service Years
1943 - 1948

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Personal Details

Home State

Illinois

Year of Birth
1924

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Contact Info

Home Town Granite City, Illinois	Last Address 1343 N. Elderberry Ave. Ontario, CA 91762-1018
Date of Passing Jan 17, 2015
Location of Interment Forest Lawn Memorial Park - Covina, California

Official Badges

Unofficial Badges

Military Associations and Other Affiliations


	1944, 82nd Airborne Division Association - Assoc. Page
	1950, Disabled American Veterans (DAV) - Assoc. Page
	1980, 325th Glider Infantry Association
	2011, Military Order of the Purple Heart - Assoc. Page
	2011, Combat Infantrymen's Association, Inc. - Assoc. Page
	2012, American Legion, Post 47 (Member) (Livermore, California) - Chap. Page

Additional Information

Last Known Activity:

Retired Jan. 1990 from General Dynamics, Pomona Division, Pomona, CA from position as Machine Tool Rebuilder

Other Comments:

To the memory of Trooper Frank A. Plebanek
World War Two - �??E�?? Company
325th Glider Infantry Regiment 82nd Airborne Division
May-1944 to Dec-1945
�??America�??s Greatest Generation"
From the Chapter Members of the CSM Ray Verdugo Memorial Chapter San Gabriel Valley 82nd Airborne Division Association, INC.

Remembrance Profiles - 5 Soldiers Remembered

Closen, Francis Edward, PFC, (1940-1944)	De Paepe, Raymond, SGT, (1943-1946)
Graves, Thomas, PFC	Johnson, Robert, PFC
Miller, Verl Elonzo, PVT, (1943-1944)

1944-1945, HHC, 2nd Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry

From Month/Year May / 1944	To Month/Year December / 1945
Unit HHC Unit Page
Rank Private First Class	MOS Not Specified
Base, Fort or City Berlin	State/Country Germany

Patch	HHC, 2nd Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry Details

	Type Infantry
	Parent Unit 2nd Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry	Strength Company
	Created/Owned By Not Specified

Last Updated: Mar 20, 2020

Memories For This Unit
Best Friends Verl Miller, Francis Closen, Rene Forcier, Jack Hageman, Kenneth Smith, Tom Graves, Ray DePaepe, Robert Johnson, Pancho Peynado	Best Moment Assigned to E Co. 325th Glider Infantry Reg. 82nd Airborne Division The day the war in the Pacific ended. Getting to go home on Points Arrived home on Christmas Eve 1945

Worst Moment Getting wounded.	Other Memories MOS 345 Truck Driver Light Germany MOS 604 Light Machine Gunner Holland, France, Belgium & Germany MOS 605 Heavy Maching Gunner States MOS 607 Light Mortar Gunner Eng & Holland

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My Photos For This Unit

8 Members Also There at Same Time

HHC

Heldreth, Walter, PVT, (1942-1945)

745

Private

2nd Battalion, 325th Glider Infantry

Moe, Charles Edwin, PFC, (1943-1944)	UN	00E	Private First Class
Saposhnikoff, Marcus, PFC, (1943-1944)			Private First Class

E Company

Helms, Gerald Rector, S/SGT, (1941-1945)	IN	745	Staff Sergeant
Closen, Francis Edward, PFC, (1940-1944)	IN	607	Private First Class

G Company

Abner, Daniel Langdon, 1ST SGT, (1935-1944)	IN	521	First Sergeant
Spiker, Delmont Mathias, SGT, (1942-1944)	IN	745	Sergeant
Kearns, William Lee, PFC, (1942-1944)	IN	745	Private First Class