Peter Sysock was born on July 21, 1906 in New Jersey. He resided in Montgomery County, New York prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army on August 17, 1942 in Albany, New York. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Textile Weaver and also as Married. Peter served as a Private First Class, 629th Quartermaster Company, U.S. Army during World War II.

On May 23, 1945, he was a passenger on Flight C-46D (4-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. PFC Sysock died at the age of 38 and is now buried in the Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York, USA.

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