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Personal info

Full name
TASCIONE, Ralph Harry
Date of birth
25 April 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
33936026
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
A Company,
51st Armored Infantry Battalion,
4th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
30 December 1944
Place of death
Salvacourt, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
B 8 35

Immediate family

Members
Giove Tascione (father)
Mary Tascione (mother)
Joseph E. Tascione (brother)
Paul Tascione (brother)
James Tascione (brother)
Angeline Tascione (sister)
Kathryn Tascione (sister)
Alice L. (Strunk) Tascione (wife)
Jonnelle Tascoine (daughter)

More information

Pvt Ralph H. Tascione was employed at the Doehler Die Casting Company before he enlisted in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on 24 April 1944 and was sent overseas in December 1944.

Source of information: André Koch, 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 1950-1966, www.fold3.com - Pennsylvania WWII Draft Registration Cards, AAR 51st Infantry Battalion August 1944 thru May 1945, www.newspapers.com - Pottstown Mercury - 24 January 1945

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Ralph Peeters, www.findagrave.com - soilsister