Renda George

Monuments

PFC Gonsowski and PFC Renda Cenotaph Memorial (7th Armored Division)

Name:

George Renda

Rank:

Private First Class

Serial Number:

33161965

Unit:

48th Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division

Date of Death:

1944-10-05

State:

Pennsylvania

Cemetery:

Penn Lincoln Memorial Park, North Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Plot:

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Bronze Star, Purple Heart.

Comments:

George Renda was born on January 31, 1920 and was from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Renda served in Company C, 48th Armored Intatry Battlion of the 7th Amored Division. On October 5, 1944, he was killed along with his fellow soldier, PFC Aloysius Gonsowski.during the "Battle of Overloon". Both soldiers were originally listed as missing in action and listed on the Tablet of the Missing at the Margraten American Cemetery. In 1977, the bodies of both soldiers were discovered and their bodies repatriated to American cemeteries.
Renda is now buried in his hometown of Pittsburgh.
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.

A memorial in Overloon, Netherlands remembers the soldiers.