Maczulaitis

Born: 15 April 1925 - Melrose Park, Illinois

Parents: Joseph Maczulaitis & Vincenta Samarakas-Maczulaitis

Siblings: 1 brother

Home:

- 1515 North Sixteenth Avenue - Melrose Park, Illinois

Education:

- Proviso Township High School

- Class of 1943

Enlisted:

- 28 June 1943

Serial Number: 36753628

Training:

- Camp Callan, California

- trained there for nearly two years

- anti-aircraft unit - Ontario, California

- Camp Bowie, Texas

Unit:

- 83rd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Armored Division

Engagements:

- D-Day Invasion - 6 June 1944

- hedgerow fighting

- Falaise Gap

- ordered to close gap to trap German 7th Army

- Rhineland - 7 February 1945

- Cologne, Germany - March 1945

- Dora-Mittelbau Concentration Camp - 11 April 1945

Killed in Action:

- 15 April 1945

- shot by sniper

- died on his twentieth birthday

Buried:

- US Military Cemetery #1 Breuna, Germany

Reburied:

- November 1948

- Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery, Hillside, Illinois

Medals:

- Purple Heart