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Personal info

Full name
LOJACONO, Joseph J
Date of birth
29 May 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
New York City, New York
Hometown
Queens, Queens County, New York

Military service

Service number
42075180
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ & HQ Company,
2nd Battalion,
423rd Infantry Regiment,
106th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
22 December 1944
Place of death
Büdesheim/Eifel, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Ardennes
Plot Row Grave
D 7 35

Immediate family

Members
Salvatore Lojacono (father)
Leonarda (Scalisi) Lojacono (mother)
Rose Lojacono (sister)
Josephine Lojacono (sister)
Anthony Lojacono (brother)
Lucille D. Lojacono (wife)

More information

Pfc Joseph J. Lojacono worked for the railroad.

He enlisted at Camp Upton, Yaphank, New York on 22 February 1944.

According to German records, Pfc Lojacono died in Feldlazarett 257 of gunshot wounds in the chest and stomach. This German field hospital was stationed in the schoolhouse of Büdesheim/Eifel, Germany at that time and he was initially buried at the local cemetery.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com - U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, http://106thinfdivassn.org, IDPF of William H. Craig

Photo source: www.wwiimemorial.com, www.ancestry.com, Peter Schouteten