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Personal info

Full name
GONDELA, Thadeus Stanley
Date of birth
20 July 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
11061868
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
HQ & HQ Company,
3rd Battalion,
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
20 September 1944
Place of death
Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
F 1 9

Immediate family

Members
Louis Gondela (father)
Sophie Gondela (mother)
Stanley Gondela (brother)
Helen Gondela (sister)
Jennie Gondela (sister)

More information

Thadeus S. Gondela attended Lawrence and Holyoke High School and worked in a paper factory.

He volunteered for the Army of the United States in Springfield, Massachusetts on 4 March 1942 and trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, Camp Croft, South Carolina and Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

He served in the African campaign and in Sicily, where he was slightly wounded in action.

Thadeus Gondela was killed during the Waal River crossing.

His brother Stanley served with the Seabees and was stationed in Caledonia at time Thaddeus was killed.

Source of information: Terry Hirsch, Kathy McDermott, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.fold3.com, www.marketgarden.com, www.ancestry.com - WWII Draft Card

Photo source: The Holyoke Transcript-Telegram - 12 October 1944, The Holyoke Transcript-Telegram - 7 March 1942, The Holyoke Daily Transcript-Telegram - 15 March 1944