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MEMORIAL DAY, MAY

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

' 30 1946
'

SOL YEN-MORRIS COHEN POSE

Roster

History

The Yetz-Co
the process of fo
on alternate Thurs
headquarters. Until a
ter is granted, Sol Levin
chairman. They invit
veterans to join.
call Sol Levin

IS

now in
hey meet
the JWV
al char-
acting as
fffliated
ation
087.

Adler, Sol

Kruzmann, Maori,

Bloom, Gerald

Levitt, Hyman

citron, Irving

,h ..•vim Sol

Cohen, Isadore

ire, Manuel

Bloom, Mitchel.:

faun:, Max

I , omstein, Danny

)rdin, Ilarold

rishel, Walter

ltdrow, Allen

Glieken, Norma

Sukenic, Norman B.

Greenfield, Geor

SussInal), Morris

Greenberg, Iry

Rubin, Dave

Greenwald, 51

Victor, Seymour

I:atkowsky,

ticker, Louis

Kaminsky,

er, Bernard

Katz, Ca:

Seymour

Katz, So

Leonard

l: rats,

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Peter Bade
vid Bader

S-Sgt. Sol Yetz

tunched on
after his
gradual•
South

S-Sgt. Morris C. en

High

, Salt
City,
had
d to
a ca.

On Jan. 18, 1945. Sgt. Sol Yetz was on duty with his company,
chich left the vicinity of Dahl, Luxembourg, to attack the high
ound near Harderbach. Luxembourg. During this attack, he was
ick by a shell fragment and was killed.

orn Sept. 25, 1920. Sol was on the 1938 graduation list at Nort'
igh School. His Army life was spent with the 319th Infan
3rd Army.

ing. He to
the thought
tion and went
alder a career

4-

sted In

01 3' on

mother, Mrs. Celia Yetz, 15721 Parkside, was informe
‘, of
.
the Chaplain that her son was buried in an Am
in the Duchy of Luxembourg. His grave is marke

1940,

0,
an the•

was post-

eV rd of his life will serve as an inspiration to t

At this point, whe
was in danger( "he:,
call to the colois.
April of 1941; the st
of 23 months in the
He met his death on
He was 28 yea'rs o

e
Id

Silver Star,
very dee-
any He
Heart

im and it is fitting that a post of the Jewis
he served so well in giving his life to h
ed after him.

aft

ca

a half
he met
i . His
. Sha•
ve., re-
his be-

ohen was on a daylight patrol on
guar
the enemy opened fire on the
oon.
d being next highest in rank,
took
their o
e died in leading his men
wish sol
the life of this courageous

Herman Lai

Herman Lash was 'wo
the Walsh siiipt Metal
l ■ , ,,W1i4l fo he
Alto se
WAS a g
uati , ot Nor
Scho
erry
a 5 4qiii ts r a
0104

Mor was indu
June 16, 1941, at Ft. C
r, Mich.
gned the 322nd
ntry Regiment of the
Infantry
wet hrough tra
with this outfit.
spent thre
n he Army
fore mee ng his
h and rece
l e
rt and the
Pri
enteri

ItIl

was a teacher
lie schools when

.

o b hies
worOhree-
ineln4Ing

t4grig4w,
sic and fishing, Ad tAis
blended into Ifs " 3 for
ei
future, those of b
ist.
an engineer or a m
4 0
Herman was only
ifo
put on his first Ar
yea
He served one and a
die
in the European theate
thd
in the Battle of the
of
contest which took the
just
countless American m
when victory seemed a
a few weeks away.
He was 20 years of ag

Paul H. Levine

•

.11 Me.*
nned his fir
Worm. J-1

.ca
$cfii t e. . t At
, A.F rr .fisrp , 44"-
rid
f rota
lath

,asigned

lnfantr
Y.w e ii

youngest of six
declared missing
mission over Yugo-
3, 1944. He entered
ces in January, 1943,
ed 15 months before
received the Purple
ction in the Italian
yman was overseas
ore making his first
t as a B-24 navigator.
years of age.

th

s !)f

eiseisti
h . le
6 ntont
a 4i,we
at'Inta
e 1+04, , •h
sergea

,

e Battle
'41- lazy o
ed;:thiS Men

N. Lifsitz

at
Paul H. Levine was wo
Sam's Inc. when he entered the
service. HO wasp
graduated' ft

1

Lifsitz was work.
r's furniture busi-

Cass Tech lifgIi
School in Jan.,

1944.

He w a s ex-

ceptionally gift-
ed in doing art
work and plan-
ned to make
commercial art

a career.
Paul spent 11 months in the
Navy and was awarded the Pur-
ple Heart. He saw plenty of ac-
tion in his journeys in the Pacific
and was especially proud of his
ship. the U.S.S. Wasp.
The European war was over
and the Americans were putting
the finishing touches on Japa
when his ship headed toward Ok
nawa. This turned out to be
of the fiercest struggles in
I
entire Pacific campaign, and
al
Levine lost his life in thi
battle.
He was 18 years of age.

g raduate
Cass High
School and he
spent two years

in the battle to
make the world
safe for democ-
racy. It was his
fats to die in a foreign land and
in his memory as in the memory
of all who laid down their lives
in defense of an ideal, it is in-
cumbent on the whole world to
see that never again shall our
men be called upon to make this
sacrifice.
He was 39 years of age.

aye r.
at time he
hardly dreamed
of flying.
He was in-
deed very
young to attain
the honor of becoming a lieuten-
ant in the Air Corps. But one
honor followed another. He re-
ceived the Air MIldal, Oak Leaf
Cluster and the Purple Heart. In
all, he spent two years and two
months in the service. Too soon

he made his last rendezvous on

March 19th, 1945.
He was 21 years old.

.

ness w
entered the ser-
vice. He grad-
uated from Cen-
tral High
School in June,
1940.
H e entered
the service May
8, 1 9 4 3 , and
went overseas
t h e following
November. He was wounded twice
the
France and was awardel
lead-
ver Star posthumously for
an assault against the Ger-
the
after the majority of
m
had
be-
s
of
his
company
lea
had
asualties. His courage
corn
such I effect on the men that
battle
e course of the
the e
ed
from
defeat
to
vic -
was ch
tory.
'as the only son of
Mortime
Max Lifsitz, 260
Mr. and

Webb Ave.

He was 23 years of age.

