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Year of Birth
1930 |
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This Military Service Page was created/owned by
MAJ John Moore (SaberAlpha 10)
to remember
Klassen, Fred Paul, Pfc.
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Home Town
Euclid |
Last Address
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Casualty Date
Jul 19, 1952 |
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Cause
Hostile, Died of Wounds |
Reason
Gun, Small Arms Fire |
Location
Korea, North |
Conflict
Korean War/Korea, Summer-Fall 1952 |
Location of Interment
Brooklyn Heights Cemetery - Brooklyn Heights, Ohio |
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Comments/Citation
PFC Fred P. Klassen (US 52167143) was probably drafted early in 1950. He was sent to the 25th Reconnaissance Company of the 25th Infantry Division that was deployed in Korea. For two years and with an increase in rank, PFC Klassen remained with this battle-hardened unit until he was mortally wounded in the North Korean Sector during the Summer to Fall Offensive of 1952.
A fellow unit member was with him when he died later that day. This soldier's grandson relates: "My grandpa knew him. Fred P. Klassen died on the operating bed next to my grandpa.... On July 19, 1952 my grandpa was also shot. On the way to the hospital he remembers that Fred Klassen had his neck shot up pretty bad, and, unfortunately that the young man died on the O.R. bed next to my grandpa."
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