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PFC Joe B Ortega Veteran

Birth: 7 Jan 1925
Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado, USA
Death: 25 Dec 1944 (aged 19)
At Sea
Burial: Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial

Colleville-sur-Mer, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Show Map GPS-Latitude: 49.3604216, Longitude: -0.855967
Plot: Block D, Row 11, Grave 21
Memorial ID: 56648434 View Source

Entered the service from Colorado.

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He passed away on the SS Léopoldville, a transport ship crossing the English Channel five miles off the coast of Cherbourg France.

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Joe B. Ortega
PFC. 262 INF 66 DIV
COLORADO DEC 25 1944

Bottom of cross: 21

Bottom Back: 37361190

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