IN MEMORY OF
OUR ONLY BELOVED SON
ENSIGN NATHAN Q. F. PICCIRILLI
WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
FOR HIS COUNTRY AT THE BATTLE
OF ORMAC BAY, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
ON DECEMBER 7, 1944
(Sculpted by his uncle)
Day 489
Three years after Pearl Harbor
May 2nd, 2013
It should have read Ormoc Bay.
Ensign Piccirilli must have been on the USS Ward DD-139 ..
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/provinces/philippines_ormoc_bay.html
He was killed aboard the USS Liddle, along with 37 other crewmen when a kamakazi hit the bridge.