![]() ![]() Lieutenant, 60th Regiment, 9th Infantry Division, First United States Army. #Artmatic deep space library licenseLess than a month later he and his bride-to-be, Rosaria Leonardo, registered for a marriage license in Brooklyn. His records indicate that he served until October 5th, 1945. A little more than a month later, Joseph enlisted in the Army, on January 9, 1942. We can track Joseph in these censuses, see that he finished two years of college, still lived in the old neighborhood, and then, on December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked. By the census of 1930, his father is no longer listed, and his mother has taken over the role as head of the house. This sense of community must have enfolded young Joseph in its embrace and he spent all of his youth and much of his early adulthood living in this neighborhood. The entire page of the 1920 census that recorded the Labate family is filled with families who were parented by men and women who had been born in Italy, and whose mother tongue is listed as Italian. At that time Joseph was three years old and the youngest of seven children who were born to his Italian immigrant parents Frank and Carmella. When the 1920 census-taker reached the Labate household, they were living in District 20 of Manhattan, an area which was made up of the blocks south of 5 th Street and north of Rivington Street, and east of Columbia Avenue (which is now Avenue D) to the waterfront. His obituary indicates he was survived by his daughter, Rosemarie D’Amario, her husband Vincent, grandchildren Vincent and Gina, and four siblings, Frances, Sadie, Dominick and Marie. According to his obituary, Josephine predeceased Charles, dying in 1990. Charles and Josephine had one child, Rosemarie. New York City marriage records and his obituary reveal a marriage to Josephine Imbriale in 1954. ![]() There is no record of what LaBarbera did for a living after the war. She further states that he rose to the rank of sergeant (confirmed by the photograph of him in uniform). He may have served in the Army Air Corps: as per the Department of Veterans Affairs, he was enlisted in the Army, but his daughter reports that he was involved with airplanes there was no Air Force at the time. He enlisted on April 30,1942, at Fort Jay on Governors Island, as a private. The 1940 census reports that he was working as a truck driver, delivering lumber.Īs per his World War II Army enlistment record, LaBarbera had one year of high school and was unemployed. Charles had five siblings, Frank, Frances, Rosetta (Sadie), Dominic and Marie and the family lived at 553 Pine Street, Brooklyn, from 1925 to 1940. His father worked as a soap maker and bricklayer, as per census records of 1920, 1925, and 1940. ![]() According to census records, both of his parents were born in Italy his daughter details their place of birth as Palermo, Sicily. Usually referred to as Charles, but sometimes called Salvatore Jr., he was born in Brooklyn to Salvatore and Rosina. Click for the other World War II biographies: Intro/ Part 1 (Aceto-Conti) Part 2 (Costa-Krafft), and Part 4 (Pizza-Zeltmann)Ĭlick here to share the story of someone you know who took part in World War II. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |