John D. DiCicco
Technical Sergeant John D. DiCicco, 96th Bomb Group, U.S. Army Air Forces. He lived at 300 Liberty Street, Camden NJ.
Technical Sergeant John D. DiCicco, of 300 Liberty Street, Camden NJ, was the son of Rocco & Josephine DiCicco. He was born in Camden, and attended Woodrow Wilson High School. He was a graduate of the Camden County Vocational School in Pennsauken.
Already in the service at the time of Pearl Harbor, he was a gunner-engineer on a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. On April 20, 1944, his plane was shot down at Cormette, France. He reached the ground alive, but died of wounds received in that action on the following day, at the age of 28. He was survived by his parents; five brothers, Albert, serving in the Marines, and Joseph, who was in the Navy, Rocco Jr., Rudolph, and Frank DiCicco; and three sisters, Delores DiCicco, Joyce DiCicco, and Mrs. Leon Flamini.
John DiCicco was brought home to New Jersey after the war. He was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill) NJ, on March 28, 1949.
Funeral Rites Monday For Air War Hero
Camden Courier-Post —
High Mass for T/Sgt. John D. Di Cicco will be celebrated Monday at 9 a. m. in the Sacred Heart R. C. Church. Relatives and friends will meet at 8 a. m. in the funeral home at 811 Cooper street, where friends may call Sunday after 6.30 p. m. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.
Sergeant Di Cicco was an engineer on a Flying Fortress and was killed April 20, 1944, at the age of 28 on a combat mission at Cormette, France. He had been in the service since before Pearl Harbor.
Born in Camden, he attended Woodrow Wilson High school and graduated from the Camden County Vocational school.
Surviving are his mother, Josephine; his father, Rocco, of 300 Liberty street; three sisters, Mrs. Leon Flamini, Camden, and Dolores and Joyce, both at home, and five brothers, Albert, Joseph, Frank, Rocco Jr., and Rudolph, all of Camden.