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Personal info

Full name
COCCITTI, Cosmo Paul
Date of birth
15 January 1922
Age
22
Place of birth
Hulberton, Orleans County, New York
Hometown
Holley, Orleans County, New York

Military service

Service number
32472524
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
17th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized)
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
10 November 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Roosteren-Nieuwstadt, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Cristanziano Coccitti (father)
Angelina M. (Colucci) Coccitti (mother)
Thomas Coccitti (brother)
Joseph A. Coccitti (brother)

More information

T/5 Cosmo Coccitti attended Holley High School in Holley, New York and was a clerk with the Carborundum Works in Niagara Falls.

He enlisted in Rochester, New York on 26 September 1942.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, www.wwiimemorial.com , www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com - 1940 census, www.newspapers.com - Democrat and Chronicle

Photo source: -, www.newspapers.com - Democrat and Chronicle