Lawrence Marion Giancola

Kentucky Post, Monday, 2 October 1950, page 4

WOUNDED-A letter received Saturday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John D Giancola, 801 Linden avenue, Newport, gave details of the wounding of PFC Lawrence M Giancola, 20, in Korean fighting recently. Knocked out by concussion as he was blown off a mountain by an artillery shell, the Newport soldier also was shot in the shoulder as he regained consciousness during a battle behind enemy lines.

He wrote that he is now in a Japanese evacuation hospital.

 

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