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Personal info

Full name
DRIESEN, Albert C
Date of birth
20 August 1924
Age
20
Place of birth
Manhattan, New York County, New York City, New York
Hometown
Morris County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
12203430
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
B Company,
704th Tank Destroyer Battalion
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
9 February 1945
Place of death
Sinz-Nennig, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 3 67

Immediate family

Members
Wilhelmina Driesen (mother)

More information

Pfc Albert C. Driesen worked on a farm before he volunteered for the Army of the United States in Newark, New Jersey on 24 November 1942.

He died from burns when his tank destroyer was hit by enemy fire.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / New York Birth Index / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card Files, www.tankdestroyer.net, www.newspapers.com - The Courier News 26 December 1944
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Luxembourg American Cemetery