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Plebanek, Frank Anthony, PFC.
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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
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.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Central Europe Campaign (1945)
From Month/Year
March / 1945
To Month/Year
May / 1945
Description (Central Europe Campaign 22 March to 11 May 1945) Following the Battle of the Bulge the Allies had pushed through to the Rhine. On 22 March 1945 they began their assault across the river, and by I April the Ruhr was encircled. Armored columns raced across Germany and into Austria and Czechoslovakia. On 25 April, the day American and Russian forces met on the Elbe, strategic bombing operations came to an end. Germany surrendered on 7 May 1945 and operations officially came to an end the following day, although sporadic actions continued on the European front until 11 May.