T/Sgt. Anthony Charles Pusateri
Born: 13 March 1922 – Maywood, Illinois
Parents: Lawrence Pusateri & Josephine Romano-Pusateri
Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother
-1416 North Sixteenth Avenue – Melrose Park, Illinois
Education:
– Sacred Heart School, Melrose Park
– Proviso Township High School
– Class of 1941
– attended one year
Occupation: grocery clerk at the family store
Selective Service Registration: 26 June 1942
Contact Person: Lawrence Pusateri – father
Inducted:
– U.S. Army
– 25 September 1942
Serial Number: 36376606
Training: Unknown
Unit: 28th Infantry Division
– went overseas September 1943
Engagements:
– 22 July 1944 – landed Normandy, France
– hedgerow fighting through towns of Percy, Montbray, Montguoray, Gathemo, and St. Sever de Calvados
– Liberation of Paris
– Battle of the Bulge
– January 1945 – Reduction of Colmer Pocket
– 6 March 1945 – launched offensive at Olef River drove Germans back Ahr River
– April 1945 – Division occupied area north of Aachen, Germany
– occupied Sauerland and Rhonish areas
Promoted: Sergeant – March 1945
Died:
– 6 July 1945 – France
– truck accident
– on way to the port of embarkation to return home
Buried:
– 30 October 1948 – Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery, Hillside, Illinois
Medals:
– Good Conduct Medal
– Purple Heart
– Bronze Star
