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MM3 Julius August Breitkreutz

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MM3 Julius August Breitkreutz

Birth
Texas, USA
Death
12 Sep 1944 (aged 33–34)
At Sea
Burial
Nettuno, Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy Add to Map
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Father: Fred A Breitkreutz
Family was located on the 1930 US Federal Census, Precinct 2, Mc Lennon, Texas, USA.
Son: Julius (age 20); Daughters: Freda (age 15), and Ruby (age 10).

Unit United States Naval Reserve
Rank Machinist's Mate Third Class U.S. Navy
Entered Service From Texas
Date of Death September 12 1944
Status Missing In Action
Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing
Sicily-Rome American Cemetery
Recipient of the Purple Heart

BREITKREUTZ, JULIUS A, MM3, 06240434, 9/11/1943, 12:00:00 AM, *ROWAN; UNITED STATES NAVY RESERVE, TEXAS, TYRRHENIAN SEA ( DECLARED DEAD, 09/12/1944)
Source:
https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/Documents/WWIIAccounting/united_states_navy.html

*The Benham-class destroyer, USS Rowan (DD-405) was commissioned on September 23, 1939, at Norfolk, Virginia. Initially assigned to the Pacific, she was ordered back east in the spring of 1941 on Neutrality Patrols protecting Atlantic Convoys. Continuing these patrols in July 1942, Rowan was one of the U.S. Navy warships protecting the ill-fated PQ-17 Convoy. Following this duty in November, she participated in Operation Torch. In July 1943, she served with Task Force 80 during the Allied Invasion of Sicily. On September 11, during the Allied Invasion of Mainland Italy, Rowan was attacked and torpedoed by a German E-boat while heading back to Oran with transports and freighters after the landings at Paestum, Italy. Within less than a minute, she sank with the loss of 202 of her 273 officers and crew. USS Bristol (DD-453) rescued the survivors.
Father: Fred A Breitkreutz
Family was located on the 1930 US Federal Census, Precinct 2, Mc Lennon, Texas, USA.
Son: Julius (age 20); Daughters: Freda (age 15), and Ruby (age 10).

Unit United States Naval Reserve
Rank Machinist's Mate Third Class U.S. Navy
Entered Service From Texas
Date of Death September 12 1944
Status Missing In Action
Memorialized: Tablets of the Missing
Sicily-Rome American Cemetery
Recipient of the Purple Heart

BREITKREUTZ, JULIUS A, MM3, 06240434, 9/11/1943, 12:00:00 AM, *ROWAN; UNITED STATES NAVY RESERVE, TEXAS, TYRRHENIAN SEA ( DECLARED DEAD, 09/12/1944)
Source:
https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/Documents/WWIIAccounting/united_states_navy.html

*The Benham-class destroyer, USS Rowan (DD-405) was commissioned on September 23, 1939, at Norfolk, Virginia. Initially assigned to the Pacific, she was ordered back east in the spring of 1941 on Neutrality Patrols protecting Atlantic Convoys. Continuing these patrols in July 1942, Rowan was one of the U.S. Navy warships protecting the ill-fated PQ-17 Convoy. Following this duty in November, she participated in Operation Torch. In July 1943, she served with Task Force 80 during the Allied Invasion of Sicily. On September 11, during the Allied Invasion of Mainland Italy, Rowan was attacked and torpedoed by a German E-boat while heading back to Oran with transports and freighters after the landings at Paestum, Italy. Within less than a minute, she sank with the loss of 202 of her 273 officers and crew. USS Bristol (DD-453) rescued the survivors.

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MACHINIST'S MATE 3C TEXAS

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