John D DiCicco

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Shot down 20 April 1944 in B-17 #42-107164. Killed in Action (KIA).



TECHNICAL SERGEANT JOHN DICICCO, of 300 Liberty Street, Camden NJ, was the son of . Rocco & Josephine DiCicco. He was born in Camden, and attended Woodrow Wilson High School. He was a graduate of the Camden County Vocational School in Pennsauken.



Already in the service at the time of Pearl Harbor, he was a gunner-engineer on a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. On April 20th, his plane was shot down at Cormette, France. He reached the ground alive, but died of wounds received in that action on the following day, at the age of 28. He was survived by his parents, five brothers, Albert, serving in the Marines, and Joseph, who was in the Navy, Rocco Jr., Rudolph, and Frank DiCicco. John Di Cicco also left three sisters, Delores DiCicco, Joyce DiCicco, and Mrs. Leon Flamini



John DiCicco was brought home to New Jersey after the war. He was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill) NJ, on March 28, 1949.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 96th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron

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Killed in action

Cormette, 62500 Zudausques, France 20 April 1944

Buried

Cherry Hill, NJ, USA 28 March 1949 Calvary Cemetery Cherry Hill, NJ

Born

Camden, New Jersey

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4165; Snetterton Heath pg 89 & 132