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Home Town Albert
Date of Passing Oct 03, 1967
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T/3 ANTHONY THOMAS "TONY" BALASSONE WAS BORN IN ALBERT, TUCKER COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA ON 17 JANUARY 1912 THE SON OF JOSEPH AND ANNA LA CIRITA BALASSONE. HE WAS TEACHER BEFORE ENTERING THE SERVICE ON 2 SEPTEMBER 1941. HE SERVED IN THE PACIFIC WITH THE 7TH EVACUATON HIOSPITAL FROM 17 JUN 1943 UNTIL 15 OCTOBER 1945. T/3 BALASSONEWAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED ON 24 OCTOBER 1945 AT FORT KNOX, KENTUCKY. TONY BALASSONE PASSED AWAY ON 3 OCTOBER 1967 AT HIS HOME IN WILMINTON, DELAWARE. AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A SALESMAN WITH PPG INDUSTRIES. ANTHONY WAS LAID TO REST AT THE MOUNT CALVARY CEMETERY IN THOMAS, WEST VIRGINIA. ANTHONY WAS ONE OF 3 BALASSONE BROTHERS HO SERVED DURING WWII, T/3 GUY L AND SERGEANT JOHN J. BALASSONE.
The 7th Evacuation Hospital was organized on 26 November 1917, at Fort Riley, Kansas, as Evacuation Hospital Number 7. The organization participated im WW 1 in the following campaigns: Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, St Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne. It received a decoration streamer with colors of the French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, embroidered St Mihiel-Msuse-Argonne. The organization was demobilized on 1 May 1919, and reconstituted in the Regular Army as the 7th Evacuation Hospital, 21 December 1928. The 7th Evacuation Hospital was activated 22 January 1942, at Fort Dix, New jersey. The unit participated in campaigns in Bismark Archiplage and Luzon during WW11 and was inactivated 10 December 1945 at Tokyo, Japan. It was redesignated the 7th Evacuation Hospital Semimobile, 16 February 1951, and activated 15 August 1951 at Degendorf, Germany. The organization was located at Cambrai-Fritsch Kaserne Darmstadt Germany .
