Joseph P. Bongiorni, III Memorial - Morgantown WV - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

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.

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