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Personal info

Full name
MARTINI, Thomas P
Date of birth
9 November 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Fern Glen, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Fern Glen, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33603786
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
F Company,
2nd Battalion,
334th Infantry Regiment,
84th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 February 1945
Place of death
Granterath-Hetzerath, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
I 11 22

Immediate family

Members
Lewis Martini (father)
Anna E. (Gonda) Martini (mother)
Louis A. Martini (brother)
Anna J. Martini (sister)
Valeria Martini (sister)

More information

T/5 Thomas P. Martini graduated from Rock Glen High School where he played basketball and baseball.

He enlisted in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 19 April 1943.

His brother, Cpl Louis Martini Jr., was seriously wounded in October 1944.

One photo shows his mother and sister Valeria at his grave during a European tour in 1953.

Source of information: André Koch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / Battisti Family Tree / Veteran Compensation Application File, http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/89/, The Plain Speaker Hazleton - 17 September 1953

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Des Philippet, Amanda DeLuca Murphy, www.ancestry.com - Black Creek Township High School Yearbook / The Plain Speaker Hazleton, Pennsylvania