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Peter Spoganetz
∗ 29-06-1923 Carteret, NJ † 17-09-1944 Koulen, Voerendaal (21)
- Old Hickory - Klimmen -
- bensavelkoul.nl Pvt. Peter Spoganetz + foto
- Open Street Map Koulen
- Stichting We Do Remember, in Valkenburg 80 jaar bevrijd, p.142-143
- https://www.oldhickory30th.com/Arno%20Lasoe%20Work%20Siegfried%20Line.htm
- https://www.bensavelkoul.nl/P_Spoganetz.JPG
- More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg
Peter Spoganetz, Pvt, SN 42011161, 119th Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion, A-Company [1]
Pvt Peter Spoganetz (119th Inf Rgt) was one of the six soldiers of the Old Hickory Division who were killed in action during the liberation of Valkenburg and its surroundings.
A plaque is placed (rightside of the front door) on a house in the hamlet of Koulen [2] near Klimmen.
Words on the plaque are:
P. Spogenets U.S.A.
Killed in action 17 September 1944
As a friend and hero for god and fatherland.
The following text is taken from the book Valkenburg 80 jaar bevrijd = Valkenburg 80 Years Liberated. [3]
Killed in action on September 17, 1944 between Schin op Geul and Ransdaal.
Peter is one of seven children of Czechoslovak immigrants Michael and Katharina Spoganicz, who later change their name to Spoganetz. Petr then becomes Peter.
He has two brothers and four sisters and grows up in Carteret New Jersey. On October 15, 1943, he enters military service in Newark, New Jersey. On Sunday, September 17, Rifleman Peter Spoganetz was sitting on the front of a tank near the crossroads on the Kouleberg near Ransdaal. He is hit head-on by a grenade that tears off his shoulder. His injuries are so severe that he dies on the spot.
Peter Spoganetz, Henry Morgan, John Reeves and Cleaver Buckler, four soldiers from the same unit, A Company, were killed in action near Valkenburg that day. Peter Spoganetz is buried on September 18 in the garden of the Franciscan convent on the Houtstraat in Klimmen. He is later transferred to the American cemetery in Margraten. On December 16, 1948, Peter finally found his final resting place at Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey.
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