Dominick C. Mauro was born on January 27, 1917 in New York. After four years of high school, at age twenty-five, in December 1942 he is drafted, just as his other brothers. He served as a Sergeant in the Headquarters Detachment, Office of Strategic Service, during World War II. He, along with 14 other soldiers were executed by the German Army in Italy on March 26, 1944.