Joseph Maletich
CHRONOLOGY
From a local newspaper, about 1940:
WILL SERVE IN COASTAL ARTILLERY CORPS IN PANAMA
Joseph Maletich, age 23, of Wiconisco, Pennsylvania, who came to Chester recently seeking employment, has found a profession in which he may remain until old enough to retire on a pension and in which there is an offer of interesting service and promotion for one of aptitude. Discouraged in his inability to find work in this locality the visitor found a welcome with Sergeant Andrew Traynor, in the United States Army Recruiting Station in the Chester Post Office and he is now enlisted and entering his recruit training for assignment to the Coast Artillery Corps in Panama.
At the present time the local officer has a number of vacancies to be filled in Panama regiments in a number of branches, but largely in infantry regiments.
Not much else is known about this individual, Joseph Maletich, except that he was reported “Died in the Line of Duty” and his name and photograph appeared in the Lykens and Wiconisco Homecoming commemorative booklet.
To date, no other newspaper articles have been found about his military service.
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Grave Marker. Corozal Cemetery, Corozal, Canal Zone, Joseph Maletich was born 21 March 1917 and died 12 November 1942 while serving on the Mine Planter U.S.S. Hayden at the Canal Zone. See Findagrave Memorial #93898113.
World War II – Lykens and Wiconisco Homeoming Celebration, 1946