PVT Federico Gonzales Soto was born 5 Aug 1925 with his twin brother, Leonardo, in Encinal, Texas. They were the eldest of the 5 children born to Andres and Juana (Gonzales) Soto, both natives of Texas. His mother was already suffering from the skin cancer that would destroy the left side of her face and untimately kill her in 1943. The family lost their 2 youngest, both girls, in 1933 and 1938. In 1930 the family lived in Webb County, Texas, near Laredo, where Andres worked as farm labor. Federico was unemployed when he registered for the draft in 1943.
Federico was drafted in December 1943. After his basic military training he was sent to the European theater. He was first transferred from the replacement depot to A Company 116th Infantry on 17 Jul 1944 and almost immediately, actually the same day, transferred again, this time to B Company 116th Infantry. He would serve in B Company as a rifleman until killed in action on 29 Jul 1944.
PVT Soto was repatriated in 1949 and re-interred in the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Laredo, Texas.
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