Minnesota Discovery Center

Louis Beconovich, None

conflict:World War II
branch:Army
rank:Sergeant
serial number:
location:464th Parachute Field Artillery in Iceland and Rhineland.
enlistment date:Dec. 11, 1941
place enlisted:
discharge date:Sept. 30, 1945
place discharged:Camp McCoy, Sparta, WI
decorations: American Defense Service Medal (1939-1941)
Arrowhead Device (U. S. Army)
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (1941-1946)
Good Conduct Medal (U. S. Armed Forces)
Overseas Service Bar(s)
history:Enlisted in the Army in 1938 and re-enlisted in 1941 after his first hitch was up.
service documents:
references:(1) Hometown Heroes: The St. Louis County World War Two Project (2004?), p. 34; (2) Chisholm War History Committee Records. Iron Range Research Center, Chisholm, Minnesota.

Personal Information

date of birth:Oct. 17, 1918
birth place:
home town:Chisholm, MN
date of death:Oct. 2, 1982
father:Beconovich, John
mother:Beconovich, Stana (Raskovich)
siblings:
school:None

Last update: 10/29/2015