PFC Bartolomeo Satti

courtesy of Frogman

PFC Bartolomeo Satti was born 18 Aug 1919 in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the 4th child of 5 children born to Artemisio Flamminio and Giuseppina (Mercandino) Satti and the only son to survive infancy. His mother died as a result of childbirth in 1928 as well. His father worked in a textile mill and reported a 1939 income of $1076 doing that work.

Bartolomeo was drafted in November 1941. It was probably not long after that that he was sent for Fort Meade, Maryland and assigned to H Company 116th Infantry. If so he would have trained with the unit until they were sent to England in September 1942. The unit trained in England for the planned amphibious assault that was to be a part of the liberation of occupied France. PFC Satti was killed in action on D-Day, 6 Jun 1944.

PFC Satti is buried in the Normandy American Cemetery. There is a cenotaph for him in the Saint Francis Cemetery in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.