Julius De Micco
T/4 in 603rd Engineer Camouflage Bn : Co C
ASN#32082990
Born 1915 in NY, Died 1959
County of residence at enlistment: Bronx County, NY
Other residence(s): Bronx, NY
United States Army, European Theatre of Operations
Occupation before the war: semiskilled meatcutters, except in slaughtering and packing houses
Julius DeMicco was born on February 18, 1915 in New York City, the third of eleven children. Both of his parents had been born in Italy; his father was an electrician.
Julius finished his education after the eighth grade. Prior to registering for the draft, he had been working in a WPA park laborer job at Crotona Park, a public park in the South Bronx. By the time he enlisted, on March 27, 1941, he was working as a meat cutter, a profession he would pick up again after the war. He married Yolanda Iocovello in October, 1942.
He eventually joined the 603rd Engineer Camouflage Battalion where his culinary skills earned him a reputation as a good cook. After returning from Europe with the rank of T/4, he rejoined Yolanda and their daughter, Christine, who had been born in 1944. A second child, Ralph, would arrive in 1947.
Julius took up his meat cutting work again—the 1950 census identifies him as a butcher in the poultry industry, and living in the Bronx.
Little else is known of his life and work. He died on December 23, 1959.
Sources:
1930 census
1940 census
1941 draft record (no date on it, but age was 26)
1941 enlistment record
1942 New York marriage record
1950 census
1959 New York death record
1959 Social Security applications and claims index
1970 wife’s death notice
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