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Personal info

Full name
PROIETTI, Louis
Date of birth
6 February 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Monongahela, Washington County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35219396
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Rifleman
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
330th Infantry Regiment,
83rd Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 December 1944
Place of death
Strass, Hürtgen Forest, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
H 14 5

Immediate family

Members
Nello Proietti (father)
Erina Proietti (mother)
Nello Proietti (brother)
Carlo Proietti (brother)
Sylvia D. Proietti (wife)

More information

Pfc Louis Proietti graduated from Bellaire High School in 1937 where he played basketball. He was a truck driver for a pop bottling company.

He enlisted in Columbus, Ohio on 10 May 1943 and joined his unit from a replacement battalion on 14 August 1944.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, http://83rdinfdivdocs.org, www.ancestry.com - 1940 census / Headstone and Interment Record, WWII Draft Card

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.aancestry.com - Bellaire High School 1937, family collection by Tom Kuijpers