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Personal info

Full name
BENEDETTO, Joe D
Date of birth
28 July 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Hometown
Cook County, Illinois

Military service

Service number
36649165
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
H Company,
2nd Battalion,
422nd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Silver Star,
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Finding of Death
Date of death
25 December 1944
Place of death
Gerolstein, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
C 4 50

Immediate family

Members
Giovanni Benedetto (father)
Francesca (Rosetti) Benedetto (mother)
Grace M. Benedetto (wife)

More information

Pfc Joe D. Benedetto was seriously wounded when he crawled back to his MG to complete its destruction, and was later killed in a bombing raid of the RAF at Gerolstein on Christmas Eve on the way to a POW camp.

Pfc Joe D. Benedetto first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Hamm, Luxembourg.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.indianamilitary.org, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007

Photo source: Peter Schouteten