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Personal info

Full name
NASH, Joseph A
Date of birth
23 April 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Hometown
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York

Military service

Service number
32983993
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
290th Infantry Regiment,
75th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 March 1945
Place of death
Rheinberg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
I 10 22

Immediate family

Members
William W. Nash (father)
Janet (Fobes) Nash (mother)
William W. Nash (brother)
David F. Nash ( brother)

More information

Pfc Joseph A. Nash worked at a funeral home prior to entering the service. He also was a drummer and he played for various bands throughout the city.

He enlisted in New York City, New York on 14 July 1943.

Pfc Nash was standing guard over a key pontoon bridges. The Germans sent commandos in rubber rafts down the river to blow them up. PFC Nash discovered a group of these commandos while making his rounds and was killed in a burst of machine gun fire.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, http://75thdivisiondad.com/kia roster.htm#2, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1930/1940 census

Photo source: David F. Nash (brother), The William W. Nash Family, Joseph A. Nash