Soldier Details

Division:

Army
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Company C, 6th Engineer Battalion

Highest Rank:

Tec 5

Theater of Operation:

Pacific

Served:

Jul 17, 1941 - Jan 20, 1945

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.