Date of death:

June 16th, 1942 (Camp Cabanatuan)

Buried on:

American Cemetery and Memorial Manila
Plot: E. Row: 1. Grave: 52.

Service number:

6936194

Nationality:

American

Corporal

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Corporal

Unit:

93rd Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group, U.S. Army Air Forces

Awarded on:

April 29th, 2013

Corporal Carl Laska was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska on Monday, April 29th. My uncle, (Carl's brother) Frank Laska accepted the medal in honor of Uncle Carl. He survived the Bataan Death March in 1942 and died in June of that year in the prison camp Cabanatuan.

Posthumously awarded

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