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Personal info

Full name
MAZZIE, Patrick J
Date of birth
29 December 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York
Hometown
Queens, Queens County, New York

Military service

Service number
12014670
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
59th Armored Infantry Battalion,
13th Armored Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
11 April 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Siegburg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
C 3 31

Immediate family

Members
Guiseppe Mazzie (father)
Annunziata (Masone) Mazzie (mother)
Frank Mazzie (brother)
Louis Mazzie (brother)
Vera Mazzie (sister)
Mary Mazzie (sister)
Marie D. (Glassen) Mazzie (wife)
Patricia Mazzie (daughter)

Biography

https://www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/profiles-sacrifice-cpl-patrick-mazzie-and-pvt-joseph-glassen

More information

Cpl Patrick J. Mazzie enlisted in New York City, New York on 16 September 1940.

His only child, daughter Patricia, was born three weeks after his death.

His brother-in-law, Joseph A. Glassen, was killed on 1 June 1944. At the request of the family both men are buried side by side.

Source of information: Patricia Rathje Mazzie (daughter), www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll8/id/3780

Photo source: Jurgen Mingels