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Cpl Angelo Ginoli enlisted at Scott Field, Illinois on 4 February 1942.

The tank commander, Grimm, casually turned his field glasses to a pillbox on a ridge, 1,200 yards north where he had seen a few enemy infantry minutes previously. He got his glasses on the spot just in time to see the long gun tube of the German tank's 75 mm gun flame and fire directly at him. The round hit nearby, and Grimm had a split second to decide whether to shoot back or run for it. He figured that his 105 without power traverse could not be laid in less than 20 seconds. That was too long. He threw his tank in gear and backed out of the garden. He had just started when a second round hit Sgt. Giles W. Hayward's tank on the sprocket, crippling it. In the next few seconds Hayward was hit four times and the tank began to burn. Gunner, Cpl Angelo Ginoli and the bowgunner Pvt John H. Furlow were killed; Hayward and his loader, Pfc Vern L. Thomas, were wounded.