Zinzi, Thomas Jr

S 2/c Thomas Zinzi , one of the community's outstanding high school athletes, lost his left leg as a result of an operation following an injury at a training camp in the South. He was the only son of Mr. and Mrs Thomas Zinzi, Sr. of Motor Parkway and was captain and star player of the football team at Farmingdale High in l943. He was a graduate of the St. Ignatius Parochial School in Hicksville. S 2/C Zinzi was in srvice for about a year and a half and is believed to have been training as an aerial gunner when the accident occurred. (From The Bethpage Newsgram, Thursday December 6, 1945)