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Personal info

Full name
TITO, Vito W
Date of birth
20 January 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Hawaii
Hometown
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
13174395
Rank
Private First Class
Function
Medical Aidman
Unit
415th Infantry Regiment,
104th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died non-Battle
Date of death
18 November 1944
Place of death
Eschweiler, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
F 9 53

Immediate family

Members
Michael A. Tito (father)
Madeline D. Tito (sister)

More information

Pfc Vito W. Tito graduated from Hazleton High School with the class of 1941 and studied at the Hazleton Penn State Undergraduate Center for two years where he was taking his pre-medical course.

He joined the U.S. Army Reserve at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 28 November 1942. He was selected for the ASTP program for which he was sent to Rutgers University in October 1943. He was sent overseas in September 1944.

He was killed by a sniper while carrying a wounded soldier.

He is remembered at the Knights of Pythias Greenwood Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, The Plain Speaker Hazleton, Pennsylvania

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, The Plain Speaker Hazleton, Pennsylvania