Monuments
Lt Robert J. De Lorenzo Stained Glass Window
Lt Robert J. De Lorenzo, 90th Infantry Division, Cenotaph
Robert Jean DeLorenzo Jr. was born in 1919. He served in the US Army as a Lieutenant during World War II. He died from his wounds received in battle on June 13, 1944, during the Allied invasion of Normandy. Lt DeLorenzo is now buried in the Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA. A cenotaph rememberers him in France.
From https://www.lamontagne.fr:
Robert Jean Junior, was born on October 8, 1919 to an American father and a French mother who met at the hospital of the American military base of Saint-Aignan-Noyers (Loir-et-Cher). Marie Ventalon then meets Corporal De Lorenzo (5th Filed Artillery, 1st Infantry Division), gassed during the Argonne campaign in WW1. They married on March 27, 1919 at the town hall of Noyers, and on July 27, Marie set foot in New York. The couple settled in Saint-Louis (Missouri).
Robert Jean Junior came to France the year he turned 4, then at 9, and stayed there for almost a year. The year he turned 18, the family visited Europe and Robert Jr stayed to study in Paris as an athletics coach, continuing his studies. As a reward for his good grades, he traveled to Berlin and the rest of Germany before returning to the United States in 1938, just before the invasion of Poland. After graduating as a second lieutenant at Camp Ritchie, a military intelligence training center, he landed on June 6, 1944 alongside other Allied troops. A week later, he died from his injuries.
The lieutenant's coffin was brought back to the town in 1948 by Jean-Baptiste Feuillye and his visit in 2001, to the family, allowed the American flag to be offered to the town, present during each commemorative ceremony.
From https://airborne-museum.org/en/:
LT DeLorenzo served in the 90th Infantry Division Intelligence Section.