Background
Perconte was born and raised in Joliet, Illinois.
Perconte was born and raised in Joliet, Illinois.
He was raised Catholic and attended parochial schools. He graduated Joliet Central High School in 1935.
He was portrayed by James Madio in the Home Box Office/British Broadcasting Corporation miniseries Band of Brothers. During the Great Depression, he and some of his friends moved to Gary, Indiana and worked in a steel mill. Perconte was a non-commissioned officer in 1st Platoon.
He participated in the division"s airborne assault on France on Doctorate-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 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 Randleman, and a few others were patrolling an area outside of Company East"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.
He returned home to his family in Joliet and worked as a postman. 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, he was the oldest living member of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion 506 PIR.