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Pfc Frank Lalopa graduated from East Rochester High School in 1942 and worked in a factory for metal products.

He enlisted in Rochester, New York on 24 February 1943 and went overseas after 14 weeks' training. Pfc Lalopa spent five months in Italy before going to England.
He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously. The citation cited: For extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy while serving with Company K, 11th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division, in action against enemy forces on 8 September 1944, at the Dornot bridgehead across the Moselle River, five miles south of Metz. Pfc George T. Dickey and Pfc Frank Lalopa volunteered to man a forward observation post during the night. When the Germans attacked, they were warned to return to their lines, but instead, stayed at their posts firing into the advancing Germans until they were both killed. On the following morning, twenty-two enemy dead were found near their bodies, some within three yards of their position."