Don DiMarzo

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Name: Don DiMarzo
Alias: Sailor DeMarzo
Birth Name: Donald Domenic DiMarzo
Hometown: Long Beach, California, USA
Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 1944-11-25 (Age:41)
Pro Boxer: Record

Don DiMarzo served as fire marshal on the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid during World War II. He was killed while fighting the fires started by two kamikaze attacks on the ship on November 25, 1944 in the Philippine Sea. DiMarzo was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart.