Michael first registered with the draft board on 16 April 1942 and enlisted in the Army at Pittsburgh, PA on 15 May 1942.

Michael submitted this application for the Pennsylvania WWII Veterans bonus on 1 February 1950.  He was credited with 16 months of domestic duty and 22 months of foreign service which earned him a $330 bonus.

For some reason draft record was re-issed..    Its handwritten amendment indicates he was discharged on 29 June 1945.  That date agrees with the entry on the bonus application.

(courtesy of "Mary Ann"]

Grave marker for Michael Vuckan in Saint John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic, Cemetery Bethel Park (Allegheny county), Pennsylvania.

Pvt Vuckan was transferred from the Parachute School to Company F, 508th PIR on 10 August 1943. On 20 August he was transferred to Replacement Station 970.

He was listed as wounded in action in the  European Area in an an article appearing in The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Wed, March 21, 1945 · Page 2] but without a unit designation.

However, there is a small plate attached to the government-issued grave marker that reads "82nd Airborne Division, 509th Parachute Infantry"