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Personal info

Full name
MACKIN, Joseph Frederick
Date of birth
14 August 1923
Age
21
Place of birth
Baltimore, Maryland
Hometown
Baltimore, Maryland

Military service

Service number
33555576
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
E Company,
2nd Battalion,
328th Infantry Regiment,
26th Infantry Division,
2nd Platoon
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 December 1944
Place of death
Near Eschdorf, Luxembourg

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
B 8 25

Immediate family

Members
William R. Mackin (father)
Caroline M. (Eikenberg) Mackin (mother)
Mary M. Mackin (sister)
Carolyn T. Mackin (sister)

More information

S/Sgt Joseph F. Mackin graduated from Mount St. Joseph High School and attended John Hopkins University. He was employed at the Gas and Electric Company before he enlisted in Baltimore, Maryland on 6 February 1943. He was following an ASTP course at Vanderbilt University when he was transferred to the infantry.

He was directing 2nd platoon troops out on the west flank when he was killed instantly by small arms fire.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery in Grand-Failly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com - Orville L. Kline / Mary M. Goldbeck, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Katherine Kirk Family Tree / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.findagrave.com - Russ Pickett, www.fold3.com - 26th Infantry Division, www.newspapers.com - Baltimore Sun 13 January 1945, The Bulge Bugle - February 1992
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com - Mary M. Goldbeck, www.ancestry.com - U.S. School Yearbooks Baltimore Maryland