Rank and Name, Seaman First Class Joseph Abbatello.
Unit/Placed in, Liberty ship SS Francis Asbury, United States Naval Resrve.
Joseph is born on 3 September 1919 in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut.
Father, Bartolomeo Abatello.
Mother, Maria (Parlato) Abbatello.
Sister(s), Sister Theresa A. and Rose Abbatello.
Brother(s), Andrew, Salvatore Joseph, George, Anthony and Florio Abbatello.
Joseph enlisted the service in Connecticut with service number # 8078980.
Joseph was KIA when the SS Francis Asbury hit a mine at Ostend entering the Schelde river on 3 December 1944, he is honored with a Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal.
His body drifted in the North Sea and washed up on de Zeeland Coast (Holland).
Joseph is buried/mentioned at Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial, Margraten, Eijsden-Margraten Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands.
Thanks to, https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?605
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G6B9-1RHJean Louis
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POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
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Medals Forum, https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/
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Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
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