Name: Joe D Benedetto
First Name(s): Joe D
Last Name: Benedetto
Place of birth: Illinois, Cook Cnty, Chicago
Rank: Pfc
ASN: 36649165
Company: H2MG
Unit: 422nd IR 2ndBn 106th ID
Reported as: POW ► DNB ► FOD
Date of incident: 16-12-1944
Place of incident: Schönberg area
note: Pfc Joe D Benedetto was seriously wounded when he crawled back to his MG to complete its destruction. Together with Pfc Chrispin L Miranda and Tec4 Claude V Bolding he was taken prisoner. On their way to a POW camp, they were killed on Christmas Eve, 1944, during a bombing raid of the RAF at Gerolstein, Germany.
Pfc Joe D. Benedetto first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Hamm, Luxembourg.
His story: Click @ weblink Company H, 422d Infantry written by 2 Lt Lewis Walker ©June‑July 1948
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