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Personal info

Full name
MALONEY, Thomas J
Date of birth
27 July 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Hometown
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Military service

Service number
O1324273
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
unknown
Unit
513th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
17th Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
4 January 1945
Place of death
Near Flamierge, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
H 11 60

Immediate family

Members
Thomas J. Maloney Sr. (father)
Delia A. Maloney (mother)
Julia Maloney (sister)
Norine Maloney (sister)
John Maloney (brother)
Bart Maloney (brother)
Madeline Maloney (sister)
James Maloney (brother)

More information

Thomas J. Maloney attended college and was a miner.

He enlisted in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 26 April 1941.

Maj Gen W.M. Miley, his division commander, wrote his parents that Lt Maloney was killed when a shell exploded near him.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Grand Failly, 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, http://www.ww2-airborne.us, The Evening Bulletin
Photo source: Peter Schouteten, The Evening Bulletin