Sgt. Joseph F. Gorenc from Sheboygen, Wisconsin, the assistant S3 of HQ/3, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division climbing aboard the lead transport aircraft C-47 Dakota 8Y-S "Stoy Hora" of the 440th Troop Carrier Squadron at Upottery Airfield, Exeter, UK on the night of 5/6th June 1944.
Sgt. Gorenc was taken prisoner on June 8th at St. Côme-du-Mont and reported as MIA. He apparently later escaped from a Prison train and he was in action again at 'Operation Market Garden'.
He returned home after the war, married and had two daughters and at the age of 34 was an officer in a new startup manufacturing firm. While he, the owner and another man were working late in the shop one night, an oil tank exploded. The young man, Joe and the owner were all injured but Joe's injuries were life threatening and he died two weeks later. (Taken from an account given by his sister Pat)
Sgt. Gorenc was taken prisoner on June 8th at St. Côme-du-Mont and reported as MIA. He apparently later escaped from a Prison train and he was in action again at 'Operation Market Garden'.
He returned home after the war, married and had two daughters and at the age of 34 was an officer in a new startup manufacturing firm. While he, the owner and another man were working late in the shop one night, an oil tank exploded. The young man, Joe and the owner were all injured but Joe's injuries were life threatening and he died two weeks later. (Taken from an account given by his sister Pat)
Sgt. Joseph F. Gorenc from Sheboygen, Wisconsin, the assistant S3 of HQ/3, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division climbing aboard the lead transport aircraft C-47 Dakota 8Y-S "Stoy Hora" of the 440th Troop Carrier Squadron at Upottery Airfield, Exeter, UK on the night of 5/6th June 1944.
Sgt. Gorenc was taken prisoner on June 8th at St. Côme-du-Mont and reported as MIA. He apparently later escaped from a Prison train and he was in action again at 'Operation Market Garden'.
He returned home after the war, married and had two daughters and at the age of 34 was an officer in a new startup manufacturing firm. While he, the owner and another man were working late in the shop one night, an oil tank exploded. The young man, Joe and the owner were all injured but Joe's injuries were life threatening and he died two weeks later. (Taken from an account given by his sister Pat)
Sgt. Gorenc was taken prisoner on June 8th at St. Côme-du-Mont and reported as MIA. He apparently later escaped from a Prison train and he was in action again at 'Operation Market Garden'.
He returned home after the war, married and had two daughters and at the age of 34 was an officer in a new startup manufacturing firm. While he, the owner and another man were working late in the shop one night, an oil tank exploded. The young man, Joe and the owner were all injured but Joe's injuries were life threatening and he died two weeks later. (Taken from an account given by his sister Pat)
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