PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Zufall, Darwin C.
Date of birth: Unknown
Date of death:  April 17th, 1944 (Suluan Island, province of Eastern Samar, Philippines)
Buried on:  American Cemetery and Memorial Manila
Nationality:  American
BIOGRAPHY: 
Private First Class Darwin C. Zufall is buried at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Manila/Philippines. Plot: L, Row: 6, Grave: 29.

Private First Class Darwin C. Zufall had the unwelcome honor of being the first armed American soldier to give his life in the return to the Philippines.
     
PURPLE HEART
Rank: Private First Class
Unit: Company D, 6th Ranger Battalion, U.S. Army
 
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Information source(s):   - Breuer, W.B., Retaking the Philippines - America's Return to Corregidor and Bataan: October 1944-March 1945, St. Martin’s Press, New York, U.S.A., 1986
- American Battle Monuments Commission
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