Don was a Private First Class in HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 262nd Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division of Tully, NY. This Company was among the 2,235 US troops aboard the SS Leopoldville, a Belgian troop transport ship that was carrying his unit to the Battle of the Bulge. On Christmas Eve 1944, the German U-boat U-486 torpedoed and sunk the Leopoldville in the English Channel, off the coast of Cherbourg, France.
Don was among the 748 enlisted men that died in the cold waters that night. Don was awarded the Purple Heart in March 1945. His mother requested a military headstone in 1949 after his body was recovered and returned to the United States aboard the U.S. Army Transport Haiti Victory. Don was interred at Woodlawn cemetery on May 18, 1949, where his father was buried in 1924.
Don enlisted on July 11 or November 7, 1942 (Serial number 12201040), and married Mary Francis Cannon on July 15, 1944 in Hernando, Mississippi. Mary's father is listed on the marriage certificate as R. L. Cannon of Whiteville, Tennessee. However, there is a possibility her last name was Roofener as in the 1940 census she is listed as part of the Edward and Elsie Roofener family in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Don was among the 748 enlisted men that died in the cold waters that night. Don was awarded the Purple Heart in March 1945. His mother requested a military headstone in 1949 after his body was recovered and returned to the United States aboard the U.S. Army Transport Haiti Victory. Don was interred at Woodlawn cemetery on May 18, 1949, where his father was buried in 1924.
Don enlisted on July 11 or November 7, 1942 (Serial number 12201040), and married Mary Francis Cannon on July 15, 1944 in Hernando, Mississippi. Mary's father is listed on the marriage certificate as R. L. Cannon of Whiteville, Tennessee. However, there is a possibility her last name was Roofener as in the 1940 census she is listed as part of the Edward and Elsie Roofener family in Memphis, Tennessee.
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If you have any information about Don, or his wife Mary Francis Cannon Yaccketta, please contact me at [email protected]
Don was a Private First Class in HQ Company, 2nd Battalion, 262nd Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division of Tully, NY. This Company was among the 2,235 US troops aboard the SS Leopoldville, a Belgian troop transport ship that was carrying his unit to the Battle of the Bulge. On Christmas Eve 1944, the German U-boat U-486 torpedoed and sunk the Leopoldville in the English Channel, off the coast of Cherbourg, France.
Don was among the 748 enlisted men that died in the cold waters that night. Don was awarded the Purple Heart in March 1945. His mother requested a military headstone in 1949 after his body was recovered and returned to the United States aboard the U.S. Army Transport Haiti Victory. Don was interred at Woodlawn cemetery on May 18, 1949, where his father was buried in 1924.
Don enlisted on July 11 or November 7, 1942 (Serial number 12201040), and married Mary Francis Cannon on July 15, 1944 in Hernando, Mississippi. Mary's father is listed on the marriage certificate as R. L. Cannon of Whiteville, Tennessee. However, there is a possibility her last name was Roofener as in the 1940 census she is listed as part of the Edward and Elsie Roofener family in Memphis, Tennessee.
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If you have any information about Don, or his wife Mary Francis Cannon Yaccketta, please contact me at [email protected]
Don was among the 748 enlisted men that died in the cold waters that night. Don was awarded the Purple Heart in March 1945. His mother requested a military headstone in 1949 after his body was recovered and returned to the United States aboard the U.S. Army Transport Haiti Victory. Don was interred at Woodlawn cemetery on May 18, 1949, where his father was buried in 1924.
Don enlisted on July 11 or November 7, 1942 (Serial number 12201040), and married Mary Francis Cannon on July 15, 1944 in Hernando, Mississippi. Mary's father is listed on the marriage certificate as R. L. Cannon of Whiteville, Tennessee. However, there is a possibility her last name was Roofener as in the 1940 census she is listed as part of the Edward and Elsie Roofener family in Memphis, Tennessee.
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
If you have any information about Don, or his wife Mary Francis Cannon Yaccketta, please contact me at [email protected]
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DOMINICK T. YACCKETTA
NEW YORK
PFC 26 INF 56 DIV
WORLD WAR II
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