Rear Admiral John Marocchi is listed as a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/culpeper.asp.

Additional information:  https://vawarmemorial.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Marocchi_bio.pdf

Rear Admiral John L. Marocchi was born Gianluigi Marocchi in Bologna, Italy, in 1920, and arrived in the United States at the age of two.  After attending Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, John Marocchi received an appointment to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, as a member of the class of 1942.  His class graduation was moved up to December 1941 following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Ensign Marocchi was assigned to the light cruiser USS Birmingham (CL-62).  Commissioned in January 1943, the USS Birmingham first saw action in the Mediterranean supporting the July 1943 invasion of Sicily.  Transferred to the Pacific, she was damaged during the November 1943 Battle of Empress Augusta Bay in the Solomon Islands but returned to operations following repairs.  On October 25, 1944 in the midst of the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines Lieutenant (LT) Marocchi and the USS Birmingham were alongside the damaged light aircraft carrier USS Princeton (CVL-23) following a Japanese air attack.  Fires aboard the Princeton touched off an ammunition magazine and the resulting blast killed 233 Birmingham sailors and seriously wounded another 211, including LT Marocchi, who was hospitalized for 16 months.  Following the end of World War II he attended Naval Intelligence School and served during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.  In 1969 he was promoted to Rear Admiral (RADM) and his final active duty assignment was as Deputy Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland.  RADM Marocchi retired in 1975 after 37 years of service with many honors including awards of the Legion of Merit and Purple Heart.  Following retirement he and his wife Mary Province Marocchi settled on a farm in Rappahannock County, Virginia.  He was active in a variety of civic activities and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, which today offers a scholarship in his honor to Virginia students.  RADM Marocchi passed away in 2014 at the age of 94 and rests in Section M of Culpeper National Cemetery with Mary Province, who died in 2001.

This is a photo or Rear Admiral John L. Marocchi

Culpeper National Cemetery

Visited RADM Marocchi’s grave this morning following the Memorial Day Remembrance event at the Culpeper, VA National Cemetery. A somber occasion marking the sacrifice of our service members who have passed away. 
Thank you, RADM Marocchi, for your many years of faithful service to our country through three wars. 

Thank you for sharing! I volunteer with Wreaths Across America at Culpeper National Cemetery and have been writing profiles of service members buried there. It was an honor to remember RADM Marocchi. 

John Louis was a my grandmother cousin. Her name was Lavinia Reggiani and She was proud of già career. In 1970 he came in Bologna and they could meet and Remember their lives once again. I was there being the only english speaker in the family and I keep this moment brilliant in my Memory too


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