Date of death:

September 1943 (Province of Salerno, Campania region, Italy.)

Nationality:

American (1776 - present, Republic)

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Staff Sergeant (Sergeant-Major)

Unit:

Company D, 142nd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division "Arrowhead", U.S. Army

For action performed on 9 September 1943, during the amphibious landing at Salerno (Operation: "Avalanche") near Paestum/Province of Salerno, Italy.

Posthumously awarded.
Headquarters, Fifth U.S. Army, General Orders No. 81 (1943).

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