Nicholas Fondacaro
Rank: Seaman First Class, United States Navy
Service Number: 08126656
Ship: USS Underhill DE-682
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died:
Awards: Purple Heart
Buried at: Tablets of the Missing, Manila American Cemetery, Manila, Philippines
Biography
Seaman First Class Nicholas Fondacaro, of Waterford Road in Blue Anchor, New Jersey, enlisted in the United States Navy in July of 1943, after having worked at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard in Camden, New Jersey. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Fondacaro, he was serving aboard the destroyer escort USS Underhill DE-682 with Radarman Second Class Michael D. Capparelli of Camden, New Jersey, when the Underhill was torpedoed and sunk off the Philippine Islands on July 24, 1945. His death was reported in the August 24, 1945 morning edition of the Camden Courier-Post.
Nicholas Fondacaro was survived by his parents, a brother, Corporal Francis Fondacaro, who had entered the Army in July of 1942, and an uncle, Joseph Delano, of 1917 Kossuth Street, Camden, New Jersey, who was serving with the Army in North Africa in December of 1944.