Rank: Private
Unit: E Trp, 42d Cavalry Recon Squadron, 2d Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, American Campaign Medal, Europe / African / Middle East Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal
Date of birth: 12 September 1921
Hometown: Paterson, New Jersey
Campaign: WWII
Died: 18 September 44
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Killed in action
Location of fatality: Luneville, France
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Place of interment: Laurel Grove Memorial Park in Totowa, New Jersey
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CPL Charles Campbell was killed in the same battle.
Excerpt from SECOND UNITED STATES CAVALRY – A HISTORY: “Two men in the Troop were killed. Cpl. Campbell from Idaho, a gunner in the 1st Platoon, was killed when an 88 pierced the front of his gun, and Pvt. Calderone from New York, Brooklyn I believe, was hit in the heart as he was running down the road.”
His signature from his draft card.