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Personal info

Full name
GIOIA, Mario
Date of birth
20 February 1923
Age
22
Place of birth
Mt. Vernon, Westchester County, New York
Hometown
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York

Military service

Service number
32811810
Rank
Corporal
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 February 1945
Place of death
In the vicinity of Esslingen, south of Bitburg, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 9 53

Immediate family

Members
Albert Gioia (father)
Josephine Gioia (mother)
Peter Gioia (brother)
Eleanor Gioia (sister)
Margaret Gioia (sister)
Albert Gioia (brother)
James Gioia (brother)

More information

Cpl Mario Gioia attended Lafayette High School for two years and was employed as a model maker at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

He enlisted in New York City, New York on 20 February 1943.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930/1940 Census, A footsoldier for Patton - Michael C. Bilder and James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - LuxAmCem, Daily News - 22 March 1945