Born in Astoria Queens NY and one of three brothers who served in WWII, he was the youngest of the brothers and did not return home. He was killed in action along with 85 sailors serving on the USS Albacore on November 7th. 1944. This boat was finally found in 2022.
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Albacore, lost and on eternal patrol for 79 years, has finally been found. The missing and presumed-lost sub was discovered off the coast of northern Japan by a team using autonomous underwater vehicles. The submarine disappeared in November 1944, on her 11th war patrol, likely after striking a mine.
The announcement was made by the U.S. Navy’s Naval History and Heritage Command. The command’s Underwater Archaeology Branch confirmed that data provided by Professor Tamaki Ura, of the University of Tokyo, showed Albacore resting off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, where the Navy suspected she had been lost.
USS Albacore (SS-218) was a Gato-class submarine which served in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II, winning the Presidential Unit Citation and nine battle stars for her service. During the war, she was credited with sinking 13 Japanese ships (including two destroyers, the light cruiser Tenryū and the aircraft carrier Taihō) and damaging another five; not all of these credits were confirmed by postwar Joint Army–Navy Assessment Committee (JANAC) accounting. She also holds the distinction of sinking the highest warship tonnage of any U.S. submarine. She was lost in 1944, probably sunk by a mine on November 7th, near the Tsugaru Strait between the Japanese main islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō.[2]
