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Tec. 5 Carlo Cascegno

Born about 1917 in Martins Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, United States

Son of Michele Cascegno and Elisa (Scheida) Cascegno

Brother of Mariano Cascegno

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[children unknown]

Died 24 Mar 1945 at about age 28 in Kapsweyer, Alsace, France

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Service # 35033685 Rank Technician Fifth Grade, U.S. Army Unit 125th Engineer Battalion, 14th Armored Division Entered Service From Ohio Date of Death March 24, 1945 Buried Plot A Row 33 Grave 24

Lorraine American Cemetery

Tec. 5 Carlo Cascegno was Killed in Action during World War II.

Tec. 5 Carlo Cascegno served in the United States Army in World War II
Service started: 9 Jun 1941
Unit(s): 125th Armored Engineers, 14th Armored Division
Service ended: KIA 24 Mar 1945

Carlo Cascegno was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.

Tec. 5 Carlo Cascegno a member of the 125th Armored Engineers was mortally wounded by a rocket barrage while placing demolition charge on enemy pillboxes during the 14th Armored assault on the Siegfried Line.

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BURIAL Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial Saint-Avold, Departement de la Moselle, Lorraine, France Maintained by: MAJ Jimmy Cotton Originally Created by: War Graves Added: 8 Aug 2010 Find A Grave: Memorial #56653582 https://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=96830 WWII Army Casualties Ohio- National Archives https://nara-media-001.s3.amazonaws.com/arcmedia/media/images/29/15/29-1487a.gif Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 - 1946 (Enlistment Records) American Battle Monument Commission https://www.abmc.gov/node/395355

"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWDR-H1L : accessed 26 March 2017), Carlo Cascegno in household of Michele Cascegno, Ward 4, Martins Ferry City, Pease Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 7-32, sheet 20A, line 36, family 416, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3029.
"United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8YZ-FKP : 5 December 2014), Carlo Cascegno, enlisted 09 Jun 1941, Ft Hayes, Columbus, Ohio, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 126323, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
United States Army, "History, 125th Armored Engineer Battalion: Camp Shanks, New York to V-E day inclusive" (1945).World War

Regimental Histories. Book 16. http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/16 The History of 14th Armored Division, by Joseph Carter (Atlanta; Albert Love E

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It was just outside of Barr, that the 125th AEB were to hear their first “screaming meemie”. Screaming Meemies or Nebelwerfers, were 300 mm rockets launched from six-barreled flack wagons. They cranked up with a high-pitched metallic scream. There would be a loud whooshing noise, steaks of light ripping through the air and then fiery hellish explosions, up rooting and shattering trees, throwing disgorged dirt and gravel high into the air that would fall to the ground in chunks spatter the dug-in Engineers helmets and backs. Salvo after salvo screamed into the Engineer’s position. Mercifully, this new type of bombardment was generally of a short duration. “A rocket attack was nerve shattering. It was impossible to tell where the rockets were going to hit. They were not particularly accurate and usually fell some distance away, but it was frightening to hear them whistling past, knowing that they could bring a rain of death,”

Carl William Bailey- Psychiatric Notes Veterans Administration Hospital in Buffalo, NY, from the period of 1964 through 1968)

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As daylight came, the Infantry attack through the (Siegfried) line was made, and went well until the foot troops encountered large numbers of heavily armed pill boxes, tank support was needed badly, it was then that the Col in charge of the attack decided that a path was needed though the teeth immediately. The Engineers were able to place their charges despite constant shelling of the area which was under direct observation from nearby pill boxes. About ten minutes after the charges were set off, the first of the tanks passed through the gap. This work was not accomplished without casualties to the engineers. The 1st squad had two men, Tec 5 Carlo Cascegno, and Pfc. Joseph Fallat, killed in action and three men wounded in action. They were caught by the rocket barrage when they were about to crawl over the concrete rim that bordered the teeth.

United States Army, "History, 125th Armored Engineer Battalion: Camp Shanks, New York to V-E day inclusive" (1945).World War Regimental Histories. Book 16. http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/16

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Carlo Cascegno (abt. 1917 - 1945)

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