2LT
Otto H Yanke
Aged 39, fallen January 28, 1945
- Unit
- Company M, 222nd Infantry Regiment
- Serial number
- 1081588
- Hometown
- Ashtabula, Ohio
- Date of death
- January 28, 1945
- Classification
- Died of wounds
- Burial
- Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, Plot Mapleside, Cleveland, Ohio
Second Lieutenant Otto H Yanke, serial number 1081588, of Ashtabula, Ohio, served with Company M of the 222nd Infantry Regiment in the 42nd Infantry Division, the Rainbow Division. He died of wounds on January 28, 1945, at the age of 39. He is buried at Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, Plot Mapleside, Cleveland, Ohio.
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