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Armondo DeCarlo, the son of John and Pasqua (Pallnte) DeCarlo, was born on November 18, 1918, in Schenectady, New York. After graduating from Nott Terrace High School, he worked for General Electric.
Despite being exempt from the draft due to impaired vision, Armondo joined the United States Army in November 1942. In Key West, Florida and Fort Jackson, South Carolina, he was trained. He held the rank of Private and served with Patton's Third Army, 346th Infantry Regiment, 87th Infantry Division. Armondo was killed in battle on January 1, 1945, while attacking the Belgium town of Vesqueville during the Battle of the Bulge. He is buried in the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial, Luxembourg.
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