Born: 20 April 1923 - Illinois

Parents: Anton & Vencenta Slabis 

Siblings: 1 sister

Home:

    - 100 North TwentyFourth Avenue - Melrose Park. Illinois

Education:

    - Mount Carmel Catholic School - Melrose Park, Illinois

    - Proviso Township High School

        - Class of 1941

Inducted:

    - 1943

Serial Number: O&711809

Training: 

    - Kansas

    - Texas

    - Virginia

    - Nebraska

    - Arizona

    - Frederick Army Airfield, Oklahoma

        - graduated

Unit: "Snoopers"

            - low level night bombing group

            - operated in Pacific Theater

Killed in Action:

    - 12 January 1945 over Borneo

Buried:

    - 10 March 1950 - Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery - St. Louis, Missouri

        - Section: 82  Site: 103C

        - buried with other members of his crew

Medals:

    - Purple Heart

Note: Family would later reside in Los Angeles, California

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