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Personal info

Full name
PIVEN, Jerome
Date of birth
18 October 1921
Age
23
Place of birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Religion
Jewish

Military service

Service number
33356511
Rank
Staff Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
378th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
6 December 1944
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
F 2 19

Immediate family

Members
Samuel Piven (father)
Kate (Balaban) Piven (mother)
Hermann Piven (brother)
Bernard Piven (brother)

More information

In 1939 S/Sgt Jerome Piven was selected as the most talented American boy by the American Boy and Girl talent contest. With this contest he won a one year scollarship at the Ferguson Studio of Theater in New York.

He graduated from Central High School and attended college for one year. He was employed as a radio announcer for Station WGBI in Scranton and WIP in Philadelphia.

He enlisted in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 16 October 1942 and trained at Indiantown Gap. He was overseas for eight months.

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 / Geselowitz Family Tree / 1930 Census, www.newspapers.com - The Scrantonian - 28 January 1939/31 December 1944
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.newspapers.com - The Scrantonian - 31 December 1944