Pvt. Paul Harold Georgandas
Born: 7 July 1923 – Cook County, Illinois
Parents: Paul J. Georgandas & Edna Lenou-Georgandas
Siblings: 1 sister
Home:
– 7442 West Harvard Street – Forest Park, Illinois
– his family would later move to 6214 North Naper Avenue – Chicago, Illinois
Education:
– Field Stevenson School
– Proviso Township High School
– Graduating Class: 1941
Occupation:
– worked at family’s grocery store
Inducted:
– 29 February 1943
– U.S. Army
Serial Number: 36653221
Training:
– Camp Robinson – Little Rock, Arkansas
Unit: Company B, 168th Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division
Engagements:
– Volturno River – Italy
– Monte Casino – Italy
– Anzio – Italy
Killed in Action:
– 3 July 1944
– hit by shrapnel – Casole, Italy
Buried:
– Waldheim Cemetery – Forest Park, Illinois
– Section: 75 Lot: 82
– cemetery merged with Forest Home Cemetery in the late 1960s
Medals: Purple Heart
