Markwood Heck

Personal Information

Birthplace: Wells, Kansas

Service Information

Branch of Service: Army

Unit: Company C, 6th Engineer Battalion

Theater of Operation: Pacific

Enlisted / Commissioned: Jul 17, 1941

Discharged: Jan 20, 1945

Highest Rank: Tec 5

Military Honors: Asiatic-Pacific Theater Service Ribbon;, American Defense Service Ribbon

Honored By: Eisenhower Foundation and Talmage Historical Museum

Biography

Inducted into the US Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, at the age of 23, Markwood Heck qualified as an Excellent Rifleman. In 1942 he graduated from Cooks and Bakers School at Fort Riley, Kansas. His unit left the United States July 21, 1943, and arrived in the Asiatic-Pacific theater on July 29. He arrived back in the U.S. on September 29, 1944, and received an Honorable Discharge from Moore General Hospital in Swannanoa, North Carolina, on January 20, 1945. Courtesy of Talmage (Kansas) Historical Museum & Library.