Herald Statesman, Yonkers NY - Jan 9, 1950
The body of Second Lieutenant Enrico J. Acampora, US Army Air Force, will be brought to Yonkers tomorrow to the E. W. Maloney and Sons Funeral Home at 11 Ludlow Street. A military funeral will be conducted Wednesday with a solemn high mass of requiem to be celebrated at 10am in St. Ann's Church on Midland Avenue, burial will be in St. Raymond's Cemetery, the Bronx.
Lieutenant Acampora, who was reported missing in combat on April 22, 1944, in Europe, was the holder of the Air Medal. He was the twenty-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Acampora of 823 Mile Square Rd.
Born in New York City July 11, 1923, Lieutenant Acampora was graduated from School Fifty-seven in the Bronx and attended Manhattan High School of Aviation Trades before entering military service in February 1941. His first assignment was to the 248th Field Artillery but he was soon transferred to the Air Force.
The Air Medal was awarded Lieutenant Acampora posthumously by direction of the President of the United States "in recognition of meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight in the European Theater of Operations in a number of sorties against the enemy." The decoration was presented his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Acampora, the former Raffaela Naclerio, in a ceremony at Mitchel Field, L.I. They were informed that their son, a member of a B-26 (Marauder) bomber crew was lost in action over St. Omer France on a mission just before the D-day invasion.
Lieutenant Acampora had resided in Yonkers for five years before joining the Army. He was a communicant of St. Ann's Church.
Besides his father and mother, Lietuenant Acampora is survived by a sister, and four brothers.
The body of Second Lieutenant Enrico J. Acampora, US Army Air Force, will be brought to Yonkers tomorrow to the E. W. Maloney and Sons Funeral Home at 11 Ludlow Street. A military funeral will be conducted Wednesday with a solemn high mass of requiem to be celebrated at 10am in St. Ann's Church on Midland Avenue, burial will be in St. Raymond's Cemetery, the Bronx.
Lieutenant Acampora, who was reported missing in combat on April 22, 1944, in Europe, was the holder of the Air Medal. He was the twenty-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Acampora of 823 Mile Square Rd.
Born in New York City July 11, 1923, Lieutenant Acampora was graduated from School Fifty-seven in the Bronx and attended Manhattan High School of Aviation Trades before entering military service in February 1941. His first assignment was to the 248th Field Artillery but he was soon transferred to the Air Force.
The Air Medal was awarded Lieutenant Acampora posthumously by direction of the President of the United States "in recognition of meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight in the European Theater of Operations in a number of sorties against the enemy." The decoration was presented his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Acampora, the former Raffaela Naclerio, in a ceremony at Mitchel Field, L.I. They were informed that their son, a member of a B-26 (Marauder) bomber crew was lost in action over St. Omer France on a mission just before the D-day invasion.
Lieutenant Acampora had resided in Yonkers for five years before joining the Army. He was a communicant of St. Ann's Church.
Besides his father and mother, Lietuenant Acampora is survived by a sister, and four brothers.
Herald Statesman, Yonkers NY - Jan 9, 1950
The body of Second Lieutenant Enrico J. Acampora, US Army Air Force, will be brought to Yonkers tomorrow to the E. W. Maloney and Sons Funeral Home at 11 Ludlow Street. A military funeral will be conducted Wednesday with a solemn high mass of requiem to be celebrated at 10am in St. Ann's Church on Midland Avenue, burial will be in St. Raymond's Cemetery, the Bronx.
Lieutenant Acampora, who was reported missing in combat on April 22, 1944, in Europe, was the holder of the Air Medal. He was the twenty-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Acampora of 823 Mile Square Rd.
Born in New York City July 11, 1923, Lieutenant Acampora was graduated from School Fifty-seven in the Bronx and attended Manhattan High School of Aviation Trades before entering military service in February 1941. His first assignment was to the 248th Field Artillery but he was soon transferred to the Air Force.
The Air Medal was awarded Lieutenant Acampora posthumously by direction of the President of the United States "in recognition of meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight in the European Theater of Operations in a number of sorties against the enemy." The decoration was presented his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Acampora, the former Raffaela Naclerio, in a ceremony at Mitchel Field, L.I. They were informed that their son, a member of a B-26 (Marauder) bomber crew was lost in action over St. Omer France on a mission just before the D-day invasion.
Lieutenant Acampora had resided in Yonkers for five years before joining the Army. He was a communicant of St. Ann's Church.
Besides his father and mother, Lietuenant Acampora is survived by a sister, and four brothers.
The body of Second Lieutenant Enrico J. Acampora, US Army Air Force, will be brought to Yonkers tomorrow to the E. W. Maloney and Sons Funeral Home at 11 Ludlow Street. A military funeral will be conducted Wednesday with a solemn high mass of requiem to be celebrated at 10am in St. Ann's Church on Midland Avenue, burial will be in St. Raymond's Cemetery, the Bronx.
Lieutenant Acampora, who was reported missing in combat on April 22, 1944, in Europe, was the holder of the Air Medal. He was the twenty-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Antonio Acampora of 823 Mile Square Rd.
Born in New York City July 11, 1923, Lieutenant Acampora was graduated from School Fifty-seven in the Bronx and attended Manhattan High School of Aviation Trades before entering military service in February 1941. His first assignment was to the 248th Field Artillery but he was soon transferred to the Air Force.
The Air Medal was awarded Lieutenant Acampora posthumously by direction of the President of the United States "in recognition of meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight in the European Theater of Operations in a number of sorties against the enemy." The decoration was presented his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Acampora, the former Raffaela Naclerio, in a ceremony at Mitchel Field, L.I. They were informed that their son, a member of a B-26 (Marauder) bomber crew was lost in action over St. Omer France on a mission just before the D-day invasion.
Lieutenant Acampora had resided in Yonkers for five years before joining the Army. He was a communicant of St. Ann's Church.
Besides his father and mother, Lietuenant Acampora is survived by a sister, and four brothers.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
