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DANIEL R. DE LUCA |
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 MAKING
NORMAL improvement after being wounded in action on Oct 1, Private
DeLuca is the son of Mr. and Ms. Daniel DeLuca. He was a former
West high student and worked at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. before
entering the Army. DeLuca had been overseas a year, serving as a
paratrooper, when wounded.
[The Akron Beacon Journal, Akron,
OH, December 7 1944, Main Edition, Page 30] |
(courtesy
of Lonnie Hoover) |
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Grave marker for Daniel R. De Luca in
Plot J-0947 of the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Boulder
City (Clark county), Nevada.
Daniel enlisted in the Army at Fort
Hayes, Columbus, OH on 6 November 1942 and was assigned to Hq 2nd, 508th
PIR..
Pvt De Luca was wounded in action in
Holland on 1 October 1944 and evacuated to a field hospital. On 2
January 1945 he was transferred from the 508th to the hospital's
detachment of patients and did not return to the regiment. |
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