Zentgraf Frederick Leo “Fred”

Name:

Frederick Leo “Fred” Zentgraf

Rank:

Private

Serial Number:

Unit:

504th Parachute Infantry Regiment

Date of Death:

1944-09-20

State:

Pennsylvania

Cemetery:

Gethsemane Cemetery, Laureldale, Berks County, Pennsylvania

Plot:

Section C-22

Row:

Plot 568

Grave:

4

Decoration:

Comments:

Frederick Leo “Fred” Zentgraf was born on January 26, 1921, in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Frederick Leo Zentgraf and Mary A. Lenich Zentgraf.

Frederick attended high school for three years and was semiskilled. He entered military service in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and served in HQ/3, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, as a Private, during World War II.

On September 20, 1944, he was killed in the battle shortly after the heroic Waal River crossing in canvass boats, near the dyke off Fort Hof van Holland (Fort Beneden [Lower] Lent) at the village of Lent, located in the northern banks of the Waal River and opposite the city of Nijmegen, which is located on the southern banks. Lent became in 2001 part of Nijmegen Municipality and a district of Nijmegen Noord (North).

Pvt Zentgraf is now buried in the Gethsemane Cemetery, Laureldale, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA.

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