Peter Marco (1910-1944)

Peter Marco was born in 1910 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, the son of Italian immigrants. He graduated from Birdsboro High School in 1929 and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania soon after. He graduated with the class of 1932 and immediately entered the Dickinson School of Law, from which he received his LL.B. in 1935. While an undergraduate, he was a member of Mohler Scientific Club and Theta Chi fraternity.

In June 1936, Marco became the first Italian-American to be admitted to the Berks County Bar. After practicing law in the county, he entered the army on June 4, 1941 and was assigned to basic training in Georgia. In October 1941, he was released from selective service as he was actually beyond the peacetime age for service. With the outbreak of war, however, Marco was soon back in uniform. He served as a sergeant of military police in Philadelphia in mid-1942 but by December he had graduated from the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia and had been commissioned. In June 1944 he was assigned to an officer replacement unit in England and was soon serving with Company A, 22nd Infantry Regiment of the Fourth Division in the hedgerow fighting through Normandy.

On September 20, 1944, near Aachen, Germany, Peter Marco was first reported missing in action and was later declared to have been killed.

More information about other Dickinson war casualties can be found through the online project "In Remembrance" (see link for related entries below).