Sawosko Carl

Name:

Carl Sawosko

Rank:

Private First Class

Serial Number:

16100548

Unit:

506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division

Date of Death:

1945-01-13

State:

Illinois

Cemetery:

Camp Butler National Cemetery, Springfield, IL

Plot:

C

Row:

Grave:

222

Decoration:

Comments:

He was a member of "Easy Company." He died fighting for the liberation of the village of Foy in the Battle of the Bulge.
From Find a Grave:
Killed in the village of Foy, Noville (or Noville-lez-Bastogne), Bastogne, Belgium. Son of Kajetan and Rozalia Sawosko Served under Major Dick Winters during the Battle of the Bulge. From Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters by Larry Alexander, page 151: "(Private John T.) Julian had been the first man in the battalion to die in 1945, but the last two weeks of 1944 had also been tough on flesh and bone. In Easy Company, bullets or shrapnel had killed five men: A.P. Herron, Francis J. Mellett, Carl C. Sawosko, John E. Shindoll, and Harold R. Webb."