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Home Town Fulton
Last Address Temecula, CA
Date of Passing Nov 20, 2009
Location of Interment Riverside National Cemetery (VA) - Riverside, California
For heroic achievement while interned as a Prisoner of War in Southeast Asia from February to August 1968. Soon after Captain (then First Lieutenant) Dibernardo's capture, he and a group of prisoners began their journey to a permanent installation. During this period, he exerted himself in a positive leadership capacity, maintaining the military organization of the men at all times. In the first of the temporary camps which the group was to occupy, he instructed his group to resist against providing anything more than the most basic biographical information. Although subjected to routine cruelties for refusal to cooperate, Captain Dibernardo continued to provide leadership and guidance for his group. Through his professionalism and dedication to duty, Captain Dibernardo reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is the major West Coast base of the United States Marine Corps. It is located on the Southern California coast, in San Diego County, and bordered by Oceanside to the south, Cleveland National Forest, Orange and Riverside counties to the north, and Fallbrook to the east.
The base is split into North and South and was established in 1942 to train U.S. Marines for service in World War II. By October 1944, Camp Pendleton was declared a "permanent installation" and by 1946, it became the home of the 1st Marine Division. It was named after Major General Joseph Henry Pendleton (1860–1942), who had long advocated setting up a training base for the Marine Corps on the west coast. Today it is the home to myriad Operating Force units including the I Marine Expeditionary Force and various training commands.
