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MM3 Julius August Breitkreutz

1910 – 12 Sep 1944

Birth	1910
Death	12 Sep 1944
Cemetery	Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial Nettuno , Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale , Lazio , Italy
Added by	HTD360 on 27 Jan 2015
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56306848

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Entered the service from Texas.

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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.

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MACHINIST'S MATE 3C TEXAS

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