Pfc. Boleslaw Korona    

Mil#  31073577

Enlisted: 19 March 1942, Ft. Devens, MA

1st Platoon, Recon-Company, 643rd TD BN.

Born: 10 December 1915    Place: Grafton, MA

Died: 12 April 1945     Place: Barby, Germany

Date of Temp Burial: 19 April 1945   at: American Military Cemetery Margraten (Netherlands)

Location: Plot: EE.  Row: 9.  Grave: 208.

Date of final Burial: 23 December 1948   at: American Military Cemetery Margraten (Netherlands)

Location: Plot: D. Row: 18. Grave: 20.

Father: Wladyslau "Walter" Korona 

Mother: Helen Korona-Tomkiewicz

Sisters: Stella Briand ( 29 Aug. 1910 - 31 Jan. 1990) and Olga Ryngiewicz (17 Nov. 1913 - 13 Mar. 2004)

Brother: Teddy Korona (1919)

Niece: Marjorie M. Briand (1929)

Last known address Mrs. Stella Briand: 18 Greenlawn Ave. Fisherville, MA

Last known address Mrs. Olga Ryngiewicz: 13 River Ave. Farnumsville, MA

Awards

Purple Heart           Bronze Star

On April 12^th 1945 around 1500 hours 1^st Platoon of the Recon Company 643^rd Tank Destroyer Battalion left the hamlet Wespen driving on the secondary road leading east into the city of Barby, just as the Platoon approached almost the outskirts west of Barby three jeeps and two (M8) Armored cars received a heavy burst of fire from out the city outskirts, wounding quite a few men and later proved 5 men were killed, Boleslaw was one of them.

Boleslaw's grave at AMC Margraten, Netherlands

March 4, 2016

Marjorie is Stella Briand-Korona's daughter,  Boleslaw's niece. I hope that she's still alive and anybody who knows her or has any information about her, please contact me.. !!

March 24, 2025

Found  info about Marjorie. She passed away September 23, 2018.

She was married to Robert Fortier. 4 children, Stephen, Denise, David and John.

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Info/picture from Yearbook University Amherst, MA (Class of 1951)

MARJORIE M. BRIAND. "Marge" Home Economics.

18 Greenlown Ave., Farnumsville, Mass. Born In 1929 at Worcester, Mass.