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Commodore Thomas J. Lupo

In Memory of Museum Trustee Commodore Thomas J. Lupo

Commodore Thomas J. Lupo

Thomas J. Lupo, a real estate developer, a decorated World War II veteran and a booster of local veterans and military personnel, died Sunday at his home in New Orleans. He was 82. Mr. Lupo, known among friends and associates as “Commodore Lupo,” was born in New Orleans. Though he and his wife moved to Pensacola in the 1970s, he kept a home in New Orleans and remained active in local business and civic affairs. Mr. Lupo was prominently featured in the book “The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors” by Jim Hornfischer, published this year by Bantam. “

"He was a great man and a great community leader, and a World War II veteran of some distinction,” said Gordon “Nick” Mueller, president of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans. “He did a lot of things for this institution.”

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