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Personal info

Full name
CARDOZA, Verne Peter
Date of birth
29 June 1918
Age
26
Place of birth
Rodeo, Contra Costa County, California
Hometown
Livingston, Merced County, California

Military service

Service number
39004922
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
601st Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
1 April 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
K 22 25

Immediate family

Members
Albano Cardoza (father)
Maria M. (Morias) Cardoza (mother)
Edwin J. Cardoza (brother)
Frank F. Cardoza (brother)
Bernard B. Cardoza (brother)
Tillie M. Cardoza (sister)
Manuel Cardoza (brother)
Evelyn Cardoza (sister)

More information

Pfc Verne P. Cardoza worked on a farm before he enlisted in San Francisco, California on 17 March 1941.

He died as a result of severe burns.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Records / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / Tangled Vines Family Tree / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Cards, www.tankdestroyer.net, www.findagrave.com - MAJ Jimmy Cotton / Charles Purvis, www.newspapers.com - The West Side Index - 3 May 1945
Photo source: www.newspapers.com - The West Side Index - 3 May 1945