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Pfc Alphonse M. Sito graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute in 1943.
He was stationed in Belgium at the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge and was killed on the first day of the battle. He died a hero letting his fellow soldiers know where the enemy was attacking from so they could position their weapons correctly. His commanding officer described him as an "amiable kid with a ready grin, dark eyes and coal black hair".
German troops began to assault the thin defensive line from multiple directions. Pfc Sito was on his squad’s right flank with a BAR team. He was shouting above the deafening rifle fire, reporting German movements. They received intense machine-gun fire, and the Germans soon broke through. Pfc Sito’s last words were to report that the BAR team had been wiped out. An enemy bullet drilled Sito, and, with a jerk of his head, he fell backward in his hole.

After a buddy surrendered he tried to care for Sito’s body, but the German captors disapproved. Pfc Sito was reported as MIA (missing in action). When the war was over the Army tried to recover his remains but were unsuccessful. They listed him as presumed dead.
On 27 September 1988, two young men looking for war relics came upon his remains. They notified authorities who sent his remains to Hawaii for proper identification. The Army determined through dental records and items found with his body that the remains were truly that of Pfc Sito. They contacted his brother Stanley who decided he wanted his remains returned to the family and not interred in Europe.
On Monday 18 December 1989, 45 years and 2 days after his death, he was interred at St. Stanislaus Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland with his parents.