Steve J Kish - 298th Engineer Combat Battalion, WWII, WW2

Steve J Kish

Source: Find A Grave
PFC Steve J Kish
BIRTH unknown
DEATH 21 Jul 1944
BURIAL Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Colleville-sur-Mer, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
MEMORIAL ID 56646427

Souce: American Battle Monuments Commission
Steve J. Kish
World War II
Service # 36583743
Rank Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit 298th Engineer Combat Battalion
Entered Service From Michigan
Date of Death July 21, 1944
Buried Plot D Row 9 Grave 8
Normandy American Cemetery
Awards: Purple Heart

Source: US Army in World War 2, Technical Services, the Corps of Engineers by Alfred M Beck - pg. 377
"It's raining very hard." noted the 1106th Group's journal on 21 July; next day it was "still pouring." Mud made the construction of bypasses for infantry troops difficult, and gravel had to be brought up and stockpiled at strategic points to keep the four main supply routes firm enough for tanks. The work went on under increasingly heavy enemy artillery fire. For example, on the evening of 21 July at an engineer bivouac near Tribehou, German shells exploded a demolition dump, killing two men of the 298th Engineer Combat Battalion and wounding fourteen.

Source: Niles Public Library document that includes Veterans History Project Transcript of Max Kolpas and Omaha Beach to Saint Marie du Mont (bio of Bruce Montgomery Robertson) combined into one Adobe.pdf document.
[excerpt]
Of the 33 men of the 298th Engineer (Combat) Battalion who were killed in action during the European Campaign, 11 still rest in United States military cemeteries in Europe. Four of these soldiers, Pvt. Wayne M. Conrad, Pfc. Richard F. Geigner, Pfc. Steve J. Kish, and Pfc. Gerald M. Rehfeldt, are interred at Normandy American Military Cemetery on the cliffs above OMAHA Beach, not far from where the men of the 298th first came ashore.
pg. 15

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