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.