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PRIVATE FIRST CLASS SALVATORE
SAPORITO was born on May 3, 1923. He appears to have been born in
Illinois, the son of Henry and Mary Saporito. In 1930 the Henry Saporito
family was living in a rented apartment at 319 Stevens Street in Camden
NJ, where the elder Saporito worked as a laborer in a radio factory. Two
doors down, at 319 Stevens Street, lived the Adams family, their son Ralph
Francis Adams was lost when the submarine USS Tang was lost in
October of 1944. He
later lived at 225 Liberty Street in Camden. Employed by the Campbell
Soup Company in Camden, Salvatore Saporito was inducted into the United Sates
Army on February 10, 1942. He was
assigned to the 365th Fighter Group, and went overseas with that unit in
December of 1943.
Salvatore Saporito died of
causes not related to combat on September 5, 1945. His body was returned
to the United States after the war, and he was buried at Calvary
Cemetery in what was then Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill) NJ
on December 14, 1948. He was survived by his mother, Mary Saporito, and
younger brothers Michael, John, and Fred. |
