1942
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Our Founder, Corporal Salvatore Bellia was drafted in World War II as a combat engineer attached to the US Army 9th Division. Salvatore printed over 1 million wartime maps under intense warfare in the European Theater. When the war ended, he became a union pressman for a local printing press company in Philadelphia.