Military Service
Two original Army records documenting Leo Habel’s service and honorable discharge.
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Lists Leo Habel as a private, with service beginning April 1, 1944 and separation on September 11, 1945. It records his pre-engineering studies at City College of New York and describes his infantry rifleman duties in Germany.
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Records Leo Habel, Private, Company G, 311th Infantry, honorably discharged on September 11, 1945.
World War II
This combat journal preserves the chronological wartime record of the 311th Infantry Regiment during World War II. It provides military context for Leo Habel’s service by documenting the regiment’s movements, operations, combat activity and changing conditions during the European campaign.
Important context: This is a unit combat journal, not Leo Habel’s personal diary. It helps place his service within the experiences of his regiment, but an entry should not automatically be interpreted as something Leo personally witnessed or participated in unless his individual military records confirm it.
Complete original · 158 pages · large file (about 200 MB), may take a while to open
Documents
Original family records are preserved here with plain descriptions supported by the documents and family identification.
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Leo Habel stands behind his wife, Naomi Habel, and their daughters. Joyce is on the left, Jeanette is in the middle, and Naomi is on the right.
The photograph is preserved as part of the complete passport page. The archive does not assume it was taken on the passport’s issue date.
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Certificate of naturalization issued to Nettie Habel in New York City on November 23, 1942.
The certificate records her former nationality as Austrian-Polish and includes her photograph and signature.
View Nettie Habel’s profileIn this letter, Leo Habel (“Saba”) writes to his grandson Yaniv Yosef about the great-grandfather for whom Yaniv was named, Yoseph Meir.
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