PFC Jacob Osofsky

courtesy of D. D. Johnson

PFC Jacob Osofsky was born 1 Nov 1917 in Bristol, Rhode Island. He was the first of the 3 children born to Samuel and Lena (Rabinowitz) Osofsky. Both parents were natives of Poland. His father worked in construction and in a shoe factory. The family lived for decades in a modest home at 20 Catherine Street in Bristol which they rented for $15 a month in 1940. With all 3 men in the family working their 1939 reported income was $2300. Jacob was working as a gauger in a rubber products factory at the time. He apparently never attended high school.

Jacob was drafted in February 1942. After his initial military training he was sent to England and assigned to E Company 116th Infantry. He would have trained with the unit for the amphibious operation that would be part of Operation Overlord. It was in that operation, on 6 Jun 1944, that PFC Osofsky was killed in action.

PFC Osofsky was repatriated and re-interred in the Lincoln Park Cemetery in Warwick, Rhode Island.