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Personal info

Full name
MAHON, Joseph Henry Jr
Date of birth
29 June 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
13056265
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
379th Infantry Regiment,
95th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Died of Wounds
Date of death
19 October 1944
Place of death
Outside of Metz, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 17 37

Immediate family

Members
Joseph H. Mahon (father)
Catherine M. (Hitchings) Mahon (mother)
Catherine Mahon (sister)
Helene Mahon (sister)
Mary Mahon (sister)
Elizabeth Mahon (sister)

More information

Pvt Joseph H. Mahon Jr. volunteered for the U.S. Army in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 10 March 1942.

He attended high school for 4 years.

He was first buried at Temporary American Military Cemetery Andilly, France.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / Pennsylvania Veteran Compensation Application Files WWII / Chase Family Tree / 1930 Census, http://mathieu.gitzhofer.free.fr/irongb.php
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