Military Service
Perconte was a non-commissioned officer in 1st Platoon. Sometime after 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 Battle of the Bulge. On Easy's assault on the town of Foy on January 13, 1945, he was shot in the buttock 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 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 Winters. Perconte and Winters were joined by the rest of Easy company on the trip back to the camp.
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