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Personal info

Full name
SANCHEZ, Mariano
Date of birth
1922
Age
unknown
Place of birth
New Mexico
Hometown
Colfax County, New Mexico

Military service

Service number
18121110
Rank
Sergeant
Function
unknown
Unit
C Company,
1st Battalion,
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
101st Airborne Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 December 1944
Place of death
Near Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 16 79

Immediate family

Members
Ezequiel Sanchez (father)
Bersabe Sanchez (mother)
Alfonzo Sanchez (brother)
Eugenia Sanchez (sister)
Adela Sanchez (sister)
Antonio Sanchez (brother)
Santiago Sanchez (brother)
Eliza Sanchez (sister)

More information

Sgt Mariano Sanchez attended high school for two years.

He volunteered for the U.S. Army in Santa Fé, New Mexico on 1 August 1942.

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

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / 1930 census, http://www.ww2-airborne.us
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, John Sanchez