About
World War II (1939-1945)
John Salvatore Aragona was born in Schenectady, New York, on April 30, 1924. After attending Nott Terrace High School, he went to work for the Morrette & Buono Gas Station.
On August 31, 1942, John enlisted in the United States Army. He was a private on board the US Army troop transport ship, USAT Dorchester, when it was torpedoed on February 3, 1943, by the German submarine U-223 in the Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland. 672 of the 902 men on board the USAT Dorchester died, while 230 survived. John is remembered on the Tablets of the Missing at the East Coast Memorial, New York City.
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry