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Personal info

Full name
ALDERUCCI, Salvatore "Sam"
Date of birth
7 October 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
Hometown
Fairfield County, Connecticut

Military service

Service number
6150605
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
259th Infantry Regiment,
65th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 May 1945
Place of death
Linz, Austria

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Tablets of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Santo Alderucci (father)
Rose (Lombardo) Alderucci (mother)
Charles Alderucci (twin brother)
Lucy Alderucci (sister)
Jean Alderucci (sister)

More information

Pfc Salvatore Alderucci attended college for two years before he joined the Regular Army on 4 January 1940.

Pfc Alderucci is remembered at Saint Michael's Cemetery in Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut with a memorial marker.

Source of information: Nick Lieten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1940 Census / Family Tree, www.findagrave.com, www.lonesentry.com - "Right to be Proud: History of the 65th Infantry Division's March Across Germany"
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - R & S