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Personal info

Full name
PICONE, Patty
Date of birth
8 November 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Castel Di Lucio, Sicily, Italy
Hometown
Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33617194
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
71st Infantry Regiment,
44th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
2 January 1945
Place of death
Near Bliesbruck, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
E 34 21

Immediate family

Members
Cosimo Picone (father)
Antonina (Viglianti) Picone (mother)
Bessie Picone (sister)
Frances Picone (sister)
Theresa Picone (sister)
Philis L. Picone (sister)

More information

S/Sgt Patty Picone attended St. Bernard's Parochial School Easton and was employed by the Easton glass works before he enlisted in Allentown, Pennsylvania on 22 February 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his chest and neck.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application Files WWII / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com, www.newspapers.com - The Morning Call 20 January 1945
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