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Personal info

Full name
PANEPINTO, Salvatore Sam
Date of birth
11 November 1916
Age
28
Place of birth
Indiana
Hometown
Gary, Lake County, Indiana

Military service

Service number
O-1822306
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
2889th Engineer Technical Intelligence Team
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
3 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Aachen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Alphonso Panepinto (father)
Rosalia (Pinto) Panepinto (mother)
Jennie Panepinto (sister)
Joseph S. Panepinto (brother)
Ann Panepinto (sister)
Alfonso Panepinto (brother)
Pasquale Panepinto (brother)

More information

Salvatore S. Panepinto was a professional football player with the Long Island Indians in New York and for a time was employed in the Kingsbury Ordnance Plant in Kingsbury.

He enlisted in the Army at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana on 21 March 1942.

A brother was killed while serving with the Army in India in 1943.

Source of information: Max Poorthuis, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - The Notre Dame Alumnus February 1948, www.ancestry.com - 1930 Census / Family Tree / Birth Certificate

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, The Notre Dame Alumnus February 1948, Western Kentucky University Archives - Suellyn Lathrop