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Old 02-18-2017, 11:54 PM
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Default Casualties of War

I thought of this while looking at the thread related to MLB players in WWII. During my collecting I have acquired quite a few signatures of Olympic athletes who were killed during war time. One of my favorites I neglected to scan before I sold it (Japanese gold medalist died on Iwo Jima), but here are some that I do have scanned.

Ron Zinn - race walker 1960 & 1964. KIA Ho Chi Minh City July 7, 1965. One of 3 U.S. Olympians who died during the Viet Nam War. Technically still MIA.

Endre Kabos - 1932 and 1936 3 golds and one silver in fencing for Hungary. A Jew, he was sent to a labor camp. A guard recognized him as an Olympic champ and he was sent to Budapest to work as a driver for the German Army. Driving an ammunition truck across the Margaret (Margisziget) Bridge between Buda and Pest when it was blown up by resistance fighters. He either died in the blast or drown in the Duna River on November 14, 1944

Janusz Kusocinski - 1932 gold in athletics. Joined the Polish Army at outbreak of WWII and wounded twice. Joined the resistance. Arrested by the Gestapo and executed June 21, 1940.

Leszek Lubicz-Nycz - 1932 bronze in fencing. Joined the Polish Army in WWI and a career officer. He was killed early in the German Invasion of Poland at the Battle of Lomianki September 22, 1939

Stanislaw Urban - 1932 bronze in rowing. Enlisted in the Polish Army WWII. Captured by the Soviet Army. One of 10,000 Polish officers killed by the Soviet Secret Police (NKVD) in the Katlyn Massacre April, 1940

Fritz Hendrix - 1932 silver in athletics. German soldier killed in action on the Russian Front outside of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, August 30, 1941

Erwin Wegner - 1932 and 1936 athletics. SS officer killed in action Sareguemines, France February 16, 1945

Arthur Tell Schwab - 1936 silver athletics. German born, he fled for Switzerland during WWII. Killed on an International Red Cross transport train during an air raid Siglingen, Germany February 27, 1945

Mario Zorzi - 1932 and 1936 shooting for Italy. Killed on the ground during a bombing raid near Frascetti, Italy February 17, 1944.
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