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Personal info

Full name
ZINGALE, Louis T
Date of birth
11 January 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Ohio
Hometown
Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Military service

Service number
35289890
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
1st Battalion,
401st Glider Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
26 September 1944
Place of death
The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
L 13 7

Immediate family

Members
Frank P. Zingale (father)
Cencetta (Gaete) Zingale (mother)
Anthony J. Zingale (brother)
Grace F. Zingale (sister)
Carl F. Zingale (brother)

More information

Pvt Louis T. Zingale attended John Adams High School and worked as a plumber apprentice.

He enlisted at Camp Perry, Lacarne, Ohio on 25 March 1942. He was sent overseas in September 1943.

The picture shows Pvt Zingale in a group with his comrades, returning in a boat to England after ending their action in Normandy.

Source of information: Jac Engels, Terry Hirsch, Ohio - Birth Index / Ancestry, Enlistment Record / Ancestry, ABMC / WWII Memorial, National Archives / WWII Memorial, CWGC - ABMC / Find A Grave, marketgarden.com, ww2-airborne.us, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, Janice Gerda, Newspaper article