About
World War II (1939-1945)
John A. Alois was born in Schenectady, New York, on May 24, 1921. He grew up in the city of Schenectady and was a graduate of Mont Pleasant High School.
On October 15, 1940, John enlisted in the United States Army. He completed his basic training at Fort McClellan in Alabama. He was a sergeant serving with Company H, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry Division. After Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, he was sent to Hawaii, and after that, he was assigned to serve in the Gilbert Islands invasion. He was then sent to the island of Saipan, where he went missing in action during the Battle of Saipan on July 7, 1944; this would have been his final military assignment. He is remembered at the Honolulu Memorial, Courts of the Missing in Hawaii.
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry