PFC Antonio Weldon Rosazza

PFC Antonio Weldon Rosazza was born 11 Sep 1921 in Bedford, Virginia. He was the 3rd of 5 children born to Calisto Lorenzo and Beulah Gladys (Ross) Rosazza.His father worked as a mechanic in an auto repair shop. The family lived at 339 North Bridge Street in Bedford and then on South Street. Weldon was working as a moulder in a rubber plant in 1940 and was still living with his family. The family had reported a combined 1939 income of $1378.

Weldon, as he was apparently known, had enlisted in the local National Guard unit, A Company 116th Infantry, and was federalized with his unit in February 1941. He trained with the unit at Fort George Meade, Maryland, Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, in the Carolina Maneuvers near Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and at Camp Blanding, Florida. He then shipped out for England with his unit aboard the Queen Mary and once in England trained with his unit for the planned amphibious landing that was to be part of the invasion of occupied France. PFC Rosazza was killed in action in that landing on D-Day, 6 Jun 1944.

PFC Rosazza rests forever in the Normandy American Cemetery.