Floyd D'Amico was born on October 22, 1923 in New York. He resided in Schenectady County, New York prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army on April 12, 1943 in Albany, New York. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed in the fabrication of metal products and also as Single, without dependents. Floyd served as a Private First Class, 231st Quartermaster Salvage Company, U.S. Army during World War II.

On May 23, 1945, he was a passenger on Flight C-46D (4-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. PFC D'Amico died at the age of 21 and is now buried in the Evergreen Memorial Park, Colonie, Albany County, New York, USA.

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