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REAR ADMIRAL John L. Marocchi, United States Navy, retired June 30 and will make his home in Rappahannock near Sperryville. He is a native of Bologna, Italy, and a 1938 apointee to the U.S. Naval Academy from Tennessee. A member of the class of 1942, he graduated and was commissioned in December 1941, due to the national emergency.
He served aboard the Birmingham in the Sicilian landings and the Pacific raids of 1943, then in the capture of Tinian and Guam. In October 1944 he was seriously injured when a magazine exploded aboard the burning carrier Princeton to which the Birmingham was rendering assistance. He was hospitalized from November of 1944 to March of 1946.
Adm. Marocchi attended the Naval Intelligence School in Washington, D.C. and a succession of intelligence assignments both here and abroad followed. He was pro
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