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Description

Joe Duba attended grade school in District 120 to the eighth grade. He married Sylvia Dvorak in 1941 and joined the army in February 1942. He was reported missing on August &th 1944 and was a German war prisoner for nine months. He was released in April 1945. He was hospitalized in Cambridge, England, for about six weeks and arrived back to the U.S. on June 20th 1945. Joe was honorably discharged in October 1945.

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Scrapbook, Dorchester, newspaper clipping

Joseph E. Duba

Personal information

Other names Joe
Gender Man
Date of Birth 04/10/1918
Date of Death 03/15/2014
Place of Birth Western, Saline County, NE
Place of Death Wilber, Saline County, NE
Immigration Grandchild to at least one Czech-born grandparent.
Could speak Czech Not identified
Parents Joseph "Joe" N. Duba and Anna (Zoubek) Duba

Military information

Area of War Europe
Rank Pfc.
Branch Army
Detail of Service 117th Infantry, 30th division
Prisoner of War