Funeral services for Staff Sergeant Milton Rosenstein, killed in action on Leyte Island November 28, 1944, were held Wednesday afternoon at the Hebrew Aid Synagogue, Rabbi Jacob I. Nislick officiating. Burial was in the Slutsky family plot in the Hebrew Aid Cemetery, Wawarsing. Services were with full military honors by local veterans organizations. A graduate of the Ellenville High School, Sergeant Rosenstein was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Rosenstein, of Hunter, formerly of Ellenville. He was a holder of the Purple Heart and the Silver Star, awarded for gallantry in action. (The Kingston Daily Freeman, Kingston, NY, Tuesday Evening, February 8, 1949, p. 5, Ellenville News, Col. 4)∼Moshe Chayim ben Yitzchak

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U. S. Army Service No. (ASN): #34252651

Enlistment Date: 03/16/1942

Company L, 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division

Milton Rosenstein is listed as Died Of Wounds in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Greene County, New York.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, lists his residence as Hunter, Greene County, New York. Contact person listed as Isador Rosenstein (Father) of same address. Employed as Baseball professional with Flamingo Base Ball Club, Miami Beach, Florida.

U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970, lists form signed for by Isadore Rosenstein of Main Street, Hunter, New York on 04/19/1949.

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