Perconte, Frank Joseph “Perco”, born 10-03-1917 in Joliet Illinois, United States. 
to Joseph Perconte (1891–1929) 
and his wife Mary, born Csarbone Perconte (1899–1977). Frank had two sisters and two brothers, Mildred Marie Perconte Pirc-Dutkiewicz (1919–2005), 
Jasper Sam “Jack” Perconte ( 1923–2008), 
JoAnn T Perconte Clennan (1927–2018) 
and Josephine Perconte (1929–1930). 
Frank married in 1942 with Evelyn Margaret, born Welch Perconte (1916–2003).
Frank was raised Catholic and attended parochial schools. He graduated Joliet Central High School 
in 1935. During Great Depression, 
he and some of his friends moved to Gary, Indiana and worked in a steel mill. Frank enlisted on 17-08-1942 in Chicago, Illinois with childhood friend Herman Edward “Hack” or “Henry” Hanson, 
and, along with Wayne Aubry Sisk 
and Carwood Carwood “The Man” Lipton, 
they were the first four soldiers assigned to the 506th Easy Company. 
under command of Lieutenant General Robert Frederick Sink, Nickname(s) “Bob”, “Five-Oh-Sink” 
Perconte was a non-commissioned officer in 1st Platoon. In 1942, while on leave from Toccoa, he married Evelyn and had a son named Richard. He participated in the division’s airborne assault on France on D-Day, and saw action during Operation Market Garden and the liberation of my birth town Eindhoven 
and the Battle of the Bulge. Read my story of Eindhoven. On Easy’s assault on the town of Foy on 13-01-1945, he was shot in the thigh by a German sniper. Frank was out for a couple of days before re-joining Easy at the town of Haguenau.
In late April 1945, Perconte along with Denver “Bull” Randleman, 
and a few others were patrolling an area outside of Company E’s headquarters, and along the way they discovered the Kaufering concentration camp in Landsberg, Germany. 
Perconte ran back to headquarters and alerted Major Richard “Dick” Winters. 
Perconte and Winters were joined by the rest of Easy company on the trip back to the camp.
Perconte survived the war and returned home to become a postman. He demobilized earlier than most of his counterparts as he was married and had a child. Until his death, he lived in Joliet, Illinois. His nephew, Jack Perconte, played major league baseball during the 1980s with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, Seattle Mariners, and Chicago White Sox.
Death and burial ground of Perconte, Frank Joseph “Perco”.
Perconte was one of 20 contributors to the 2009 book We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers, 
published by Penguin / Berkley-Caliber. At the time of his death, Frank “Perco” he was the oldest living member of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion 506 PIR. He died on 24-10-2013 and is survived by his son Richard and two grandchildren.
Frank Joseph “Perco” Perconte, age 96, and his wife Evelyn Margaret, born Welch Perconte (1916–2003), are buried at Resurrection Cemetery, Romeoville, Will County, Illinois, United States. Section Mausoleu. 200 W. Romeo Road, Romeoville, Illinois 60446 United States.
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