2nd Lt. MAx Melvin Cisek

Parents: Joseph Cisek & Aniela Biernet-Cisek

Siblings: 4 sisters, 2 brothers 

    - grewup in Maywood, Illinois 

Hometown:

    - 105 North Englewood Avenue, Bellwood, Illinois

Education:

    - Proviso Township High School

         - Class of 1936

    - Illinois Institute of Technology

         - attended for two years

    - American Television Institute

         - received instruction on television and radio electronics

Occupation: Worked for Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad

Inducted:

    - 13 April 1942

        - U. S. Army Air Corps - Chicago, Illinois

            - enlisted as a private

            - attended Officers Candidate School

Serial Number: O&679365 

Training: 

    - Childress Field, Texas

        - bombardier 

Stationed:

    - Ridgwell, England

Unit: 

    - 534th Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomber Group (Heavy), 534th Bomb Squadron, 8th Air Force

Plane: White Tail II

Bombing Missions::

    - Germany

    - Belgium

Missing in Action:

    - plane shot down over North Sea - 20 December 1943

    - entire crew lost

Died: 

    - Declared Dead - 19 August 1945

Memorial: 

    - Tablets of the Missing - Cambridge American Cemetery - Cambridge, England

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