Dog tag of Buffalo GI killed in 1945 discovered near Italian coast
Mar 03, 2016
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Pasquale Gentile's life was hard, short and soon forgotten. He was one of five children of Italian immigrants, and they were separated after their mother died young in Buffalo.
During World War II, he returned to his parents' homeland as a GI and was killed in action April 24, 1945, just days before the war in Europe ended.
His body was buried on an Italian hillside in Florence, beneath a simple white cross in a sea of more than 4,000 crosses marking the graves of other soldiers.
Source: http://www.buffalonews.com/
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