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Floyd D'Amico was born in Schenectady, New York, on October 22, 1923. Growing up, he went to Schenectady City Schools. He worked for the American Locomotive Company before enlisting in the Army.
On January 5, 1942, Floyd enlisted in the United States Army. He held the rank of Private First Class and served with the 231st QuarterMaster Salvage Company. Floyd was traveling on a plane carrying United States service members who were sick or injured to hospitals in Paris, France. In one of its two engines, Flight C-46D caught fire and crashed close to the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. Together with the four-person flight crew and 40 other people, Floyd died in the "Line of Duty." He is buried in Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Colonie, New York.
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