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Personal info

Full name
MORELLO, Nicholas Vedo
Date of birth
9 November 1922
Age
21
Place of birth
Rockland, New Castle County, Delaware
Hometown
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware

Military service

Service number
32488763
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
I Company,
3rd Battalion,
137th Infantry Regiment,
35th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 September 1944
Place of death
Velaine-en-Haye, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 9 81

Immediate family

Members
Michael A. Morello (father)
Gertrude (Di Georgio) Morello (mother)
Nancy Morello (sister)
Alfred Morello (brother)
Michael Morello (brother)

More information

Pfc Nicholas V. Morello attended Wilmington High School for four years and was employed at the Bellanca Aircraft Corporation before he enlisted in Camden, New Jersey on 23 January 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Andilly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files / U.S. WWII Young American Patriots / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / 1930 Census, After Action Report 35th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com - Russ Pickett
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Lowell Silverman, Marshall and Mary McIntyre, www.ancestry.com - U.S. WWII Young American Patriots