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Personal info

Full name
SCOTT, Daniel J
Date of birth
24 March 1919
Age
26
Place of birth
Kings Park, Suffolk County, New York
Hometown
Kings Park, Suffolk County, New York

Military service

Service number
O-1018823
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
31 March 1945
Place of death
West of Münster, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
D 14 21

Immediate family

Members
John J. Scott (father)
Delia H. (Hartnett) Scott (mother)
James T. Scott (brother)
Helen Scott (twin sister)
Irene M. (Graboski) Scott (wife)

More information

Lt. Daniel J. Scott was employed at the Kings Park State Hospital.

He joined the New York National Guard on 19 December 1940 in Brooklyn, New York and was sent overseas in January 1945.

Lt. Scott is remembered at Saint John of God Cemetery in Central Islip, Suffolk County, New York.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record, www.findagrave.com - SLJ, 1940 US Census, The Tablet - 28 April 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - 27 July 1943