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Personal info

Full name
GIARDINA, Dominic Phillip
Date of birth
30 May 1919
Age
25
Place of birth
Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York
Hometown
Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York

Military service

Service number
32233094
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
135th Engineer Combat Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
28 March 1945
Place of death
Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
A 24 46

Immediate family

Members
Sam Giardina (father)
Vita Giardina (mother)
Anthony Giardina (brother)
Bessie Giardina (sister)
Jennie Giardina (sister)
Anne M. Giardina (wife)

More information

Pfc Dominic P. Giardina attended high school for one year and was employed at the A.C. Norquist Company before enlisted at Fort Niagara, New York.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his stomach and loin.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Cards / 1930 Census, www.findagrave.com - Avelino Roots, www.newspapers.com - The Buffalo News - 26 April 1945
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