:  Orlando Joseph Bianconi, 1944, 1948, of Cresson, Cambria County, PA

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Altoona Mirror
Thursday evening, 22 Jul 1948
page 26

Veteran's Body Is Returned to Cresson Home

(Special to Altoona Mirror)

CRESSON, July 22. - The body of a Cresson World war II veteran, who made 
the supreme sacrifice at the Anzio beachhead, Italy, will arrive in Cresson 
at 1.10 o'clock tomorrow afternoon for funeral services and interment.  He is 
Cpl. Orlando Joseph Bianconi, son of Mr. and Mrs. Giovanni Bianconi of 305 
Jackson avenue.  He was wounded in action May 31, 1944, and died the 
following day in a field hospital.

Cpl. Bianconi was born in Cresson Nov. 20, 1918, a son of Giovanni and 
Concetti (Bozzo) Bianconi.  He was graduated from the Cresson grade schools 
and attended Cresson High school.

He was inducted into service four days after the Japs made the sneak attack 
at Pearl Harbor, Dec. 11, 1941, and went overseas Aug. 2, 1942, landing in 
England with a tank destroyers' group.  At the time of his death he was 
assigned to the 601st tank destroyer battalion, attached with the 3rd 
infantry division.

Surviving are his parents and these brothers and sisters: Thomas N. 
Bianconi of Cresson, Palmy and Matilda at home, Mrs. Mary Tilli and Mrs. 
Carmella DeBright, both of Wilmington, Del., and Fulvia Bianconi of Altoona. 

He was a member of St. Francis Xavier's Catholic church, Cresson volunteer 
fire department and Societa Italiana, St. Pietro Di Roma Beneficial 
association.

Members of Cresson post, American Legion, firing squad, under the direction 
of T/Sgt. Raymond R. Parrish, and color guards will receive the body when it 
arrives here by train and escort it to a local funeral home before the casket 
is removed to the residence.