https://journaltimes.com/news/local/a-place-for-veterans-to-be-remembered-on-racines-main-street/article_e4c6695e-0c48-5f87-bf09-e8cd6d8eb256.amp.html
Santo was featured in this Racine Journal Times article about his WWII service in Europe and the guitar he had with him there. The Smalley Memorial Library is looking for artifacts and veteran's stories.
In the Smalley Memorial Library, there’s an old, wooden, elegant, maroon guitar missing its strings. It had belonged to Santo Bencriscutto, was born and died in Racine, in 1913 and 2007, respectively. Bencriscutto had the guitar with him during the Battle of the Bulge — one of the decisive victories for the Allies near the end of World War Two; Bencriscutto had taken part in five major campaigns during his time in the service.
He’d been drafted into the war effort, decades after his father too had been drafted during World War One, May’s research uncovered for the Bencriscutto family.
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