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Personal info

Full name
ESPOSITO, Albert J
Date of birth
1914
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Kings County, New York
Hometown
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York

Military service

Service number
42043641
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
33rd Armored Regiment,
3rd Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 September 1944
Place of death
Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 8 27

Immediate family

Members
Catherine (Duran) Esposito (wife)

More information

Pfc Albert J. Esposito enlisted in New York City, New York on 13 July 1943.
First buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Fosse Block D, Row 8, Grave 158.
On 10 September 1944 the 3rd Armored Division (Spearhead Division) fired what it claimed was the first American field artillery shell of the war onto German soil. Two days later it passed the German border and soon breached the Siegfried Line, taking part in the Battle of Hurtgen Forest.

Source of information: André Koch, Laura Phillips, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / Headstone inscription and interment record

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, www.wwiimemorial.com - Mary C. Ali,