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Alex Penkala : ウィキペディア英語版 | Alex Penkala
Private First Class Alex M. Penkala, Jr. (1924 - January 10, 1945) was a paratrooper with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Penkala was portrayed in the HBO miniseries ''Band of Brothers'' by Tim Matthews. Penkala's life story was featured in the 2010 book ''A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us''. ==Youth== Penkala was born in South Bend, Indiana in 1924. His parents emigrated to the US from Poland in 1907. He had 12 brothers and sisters. His mother died when she had her thirteenth child, and Alex's sister, Irene, looked after Alex and the others.〔 He dropped out of high school during his sophomore year.〔(WWII Army Enlistment Records: on-line NARA Archival Database )〕 Enlisting in the army on February 27, 1942 at Toledo, Ohio, he became a cook.〔〔 He volunteered for the paratroops of the United States Army, after his friends in the cook school told him about the unit.〔A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us〕
File:Penkala Grave.jpg|The grave of Penkala in Hamm, Luxembourg File:Alex M Penkala Headstone.JPG|Alex M. Penkala's grave at Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial
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