About



World War II (1939-1945)

Louis Anthony DiCerbo was born in Schenectady, New York, on June 20, 1924. He grew up in the city of Schenectady and graduated from Mont Pleasant High School in June 1942.

In January 1943, Louis enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. He underwent his radio and gunnery training in Chicago, Scott Field in Illinois, and Fort Myers in Florida and became a radio operator with a B-25 Mitchell Bomber Squadron. On December 4, 1944, Louis was killed in battle over the island of Halmahera in the Dutch East Indies  He is buried in the Barracks National Cemetery in Missouri.

Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry


 

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
 
For the Fallen
Laurence Binyon