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Personal info

Full name
ROSSIGNO, Peter Dante
Date of birth
26 June 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
20100581
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
313th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 January 1945
Place of death
Oberroedern, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 17 52

Immediate family

Members
Domenico S. Rossigno (father)
Antonia C. (Malvone) Rossigno (mother)
Catherine Rossigno (sister)
Ada T. Rossigno (sister)
Eva I. Rossigno (sister)
Esperia (Soustokas) Rossigno (wife)

More information

Pvt Peter D. Rossigno attended high school for two years and was employed at the Watertown Arsenal before he enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 10 February 1943.
He was killed by artillery shell fragments in his chest.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Giannella Rossi and from Castellabate / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, Combat History 79th Infantry Division, www.findagrave.com – Coleman / Andy, www.newspapers.com – The Boston Globe 10 May 1945
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy