(sketch by Ingrid Hardy)
PFC Robert James Modracek was assigned to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment in August of 1944.
Eye witness accounts relate how F Company launched an assault on two German 88mm guns in Eindhoven (Woenselsestraat) with Private Modracek in the left flank. Either a mishandled grenade or a mortar shell detonating in the mortar tube, exploded, sending shrapnel into his chest, killing him. His name is one of 22 inscribed on the Eindhoven monument to the liberators from the 101st.
Thank you sir.
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