Joseph Klimchock

Pfc. Joseph Klimchock Killed In Italy

Clinton St. Man Previously

Reported Missing, Died Dec. 2

(June 8, 1944) -- Pfc. Joseph Klimchock of 34 Clinton Street, Belleville, N.J., who had been reported missing since Dec. 2, has been declared dead following the fierce fighting through the mountains of the Italian peninsula.

Born in Newark, he moved to Belleville before the war.

Klimchock entered the Army in 1942, and took his Basic Training at Fort Hancock.

He went overseas as an ambulance driver.

Klimchock has two brothers serving in the South Pacific.

Pfc. Joseph Klimchock, U.S. Army

32257846

61st Station Hospital

Entered the Service from: New Jersey
Died: December 2, 1943

Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at Sicily-Rome American Cemetery
Nettuno, Italy

Awards: Purple Heart

Sources

American Battle Monuments Commission

The Belleville Times, June 8, Aug. 31, 1944

Belleville Sons Honor Roll

A Place of Honor and Remembrance In the Home of the Brave

Belleville, New Jersey

World War II

Web site sponsored by

Belleville Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the men who paid for our freedom

Contact/Join Our Email List

Permissions & other snail mail: PO Box 110252 Nutley NJ 07110

Support this website by buying a book

BELLEVILLE SONS HONOR ROLL - Remembering the men who paid for our freedom

Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War - a Brief History

Anthony Buccino