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Nicholas Ford Fryziuk

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Nicholas Ford Fryziuk

Birth
Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death
1 Apr 1993 (aged 73)
Proviso Township, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Justice, Cook County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section 33, Lot 312
Memorial ID
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father: Dimitro/Mike Fryziuk
mother: Marya Sowchynska
spouse: Cecilia LatkaNicholas Fryziuk was a member of B Company, 192nd Tank Battalion at the start of World War II. He was stationed in the Philippines when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Nick lived through the Japanese attack on Clark Airfield and spent four months fighting the Japanese.
On April 9, 1942, he became a Prisoner of War and took part in what is now called the "Bataan Death March." He was held as a POW at Camp O'Donnell and Cabanatuan.
Nick was sent to Japan and held at Osaka #3. While at the camp he witnessed the explosion of the atomic bomb over Nagasaki. He was liberated at the end of the war.
father: Dimitro/Mike Fryziuk
mother: Marya Sowchynska
spouse: Cecilia LatkaNicholas Fryziuk was a member of B Company, 192nd Tank Battalion at the start of World War II. He was stationed in the Philippines when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Nick lived through the Japanese attack on Clark Airfield and spent four months fighting the Japanese.
On April 9, 1942, he became a Prisoner of War and took part in what is now called the "Bataan Death March." He was held as a POW at Camp O'Donnell and Cabanatuan.
Nick was sent to Japan and held at Osaka #3. While at the camp he witnessed the explosion of the atomic bomb over Nagasaki. He was liberated at the end of the war.


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  • Maintained by: bhd
  • Originally Created by: SWMFG
  • Added: Jan 8, 2019
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/195902446/nicholas_ford-fryziuk: accessed ), memorial page for Nicholas Ford Fryziuk (25 Jul 1919–1 Apr 1993), Find a Grave Memorial ID 195902446, citing Resurrection Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleums, Justice, Cook County, Illinois, USA; Maintained by bhd (contributor 48193983).