2nd Lt. Anthony Slabis
Born: 20 April 1923 – Melrose Park, Illinois
Parents: Anton & Vencenta Slabis
Siblings: 1 sister
Home:
– 100 North Twenty-Fourth Avenue – Melrose Park. Illinois
Education:
– Mount Carmel Catholic School – Melrose Park, Illinois
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1941
Employed: worked in father’s business
Selective Service Registration: 27 June 1942
Contact Person: Anton Slabis – father
Inducted:
– 1943
Commissioned: 8 February 1944
Serial Number: O&711809
Training:
– Kansas
– Virginia
– Nebraska
– Arizona
– Frederick Army Airfield, Oklahoma
– graduated – pilot
– came home on leave in February 1944
– Harlingen Field, Texas
– advanced training B-24s
Unit: “Snoopers”
– low-level night bombing group
– operated in Pacific Theater
-flew B-24 bombers painted black
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
