Rocco Piligno

STAFF SERGEANT ROCCO PILIGNO lived in Camden NJ. As a youth he lived at 1299 Decatur Street. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School on Federal Street in Camden in February of 1940. The family later moved to 1610 Pershing Street. Serving in the Pacific Theater, he had met his nephew, Staff Sergeant Charles Marlowe, shortly before he was killed in action at the age of 22 while serving with the U.S. Army Air Force on April 30, 1945.