Joseph P. Bongiorni, III Memorial - Morgantown WV
Posted by: fatcat161
N 39° 38.856 W 079° 58.643
17S E 587738 N 4389145
Located on Beechurst Ave (Hwy 19) near the Blue Star marker.
Waymark Code: WM731F
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/25/2009
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At 8:40 pm (12:40 pm EST) on February 25, 1991, parts of an Iraqi SCUD missile destroyed the barracks housing members of the 14th Quartermaster Detachment. In the single, most devastating attack on U.S. forces during that war, 29 soldiers died and 99 were wounded. The 14th Quartermaster Detachment lost 13 soldiers and suffered 43 wounded. Casualties were evacuated to medical facilities in Saudi Arabia and Germany.
The 14th, which had been in Saudi Arabia only six days, suffered the greatest number of casualties of any allied unit during Operation Desert Storm. Eighty-one percent of the unit's 69 soldiers had been killed or wounded.
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Among the dead was Sergeant Joseph P. Bongiorni III, age 20, Hickory, Pennsylvania. A student of West Virgina University. This small monument was placed in his memory and armed forces who served in Operation Desert Storm. A tree was planted and dedicated too.