Pilot, 703rd Bomb Squadron, 445th Bomb Group, Tibenham, Norfolk
Service #O-818860
Was Pilot of B-24 #42-51098, which collided on 16 August 1944 above Zerbst, Germany, with B-24 #42-52447 of the same Squadron. Crashed near Mosigkau, 7km SW of Dessau, Germany, about 200m from the crash location of 447. Wounded, he was captured and brought to hospital where he died 3 days later. Died of Wounds (DOW) as a prisoner of War (POW) (American Air Museum, Duxford)
While serving on his eighteenth mission as a pilot on a bomber over his target at Dassau, Germany, he was shot down by anti aircraft fire, receiving mortal wounds in action, from which wounds he died three days later in a prisoner of war hospital.
World War II
Interred between Vincenzo and Vincenzina Guastella.
contributor Maureen Keillor
Service #O-818860
Was Pilot of B-24 #42-51098, which collided on 16 August 1944 above Zerbst, Germany, with B-24 #42-52447 of the same Squadron. Crashed near Mosigkau, 7km SW of Dessau, Germany, about 200m from the crash location of 447. Wounded, he was captured and brought to hospital where he died 3 days later. Died of Wounds (DOW) as a prisoner of War (POW) (American Air Museum, Duxford)
While serving on his eighteenth mission as a pilot on a bomber over his target at Dassau, Germany, he was shot down by anti aircraft fire, receiving mortal wounds in action, from which wounds he died three days later in a prisoner of war hospital.
World War II
Interred between Vincenzo and Vincenzina Guastella.
contributor Maureen Keillor
Pilot, 703rd Bomb Squadron, 445th Bomb Group, Tibenham, Norfolk
Service #O-818860
Was Pilot of B-24 #42-51098, which collided on 16 August 1944 above Zerbst, Germany, with B-24 #42-52447 of the same Squadron. Crashed near Mosigkau, 7km SW of Dessau, Germany, about 200m from the crash location of 447. Wounded, he was captured and brought to hospital where he died 3 days later. Died of Wounds (DOW) as a prisoner of War (POW) (American Air Museum, Duxford)
While serving on his eighteenth mission as a pilot on a bomber over his target at Dassau, Germany, he was shot down by anti aircraft fire, receiving mortal wounds in action, from which wounds he died three days later in a prisoner of war hospital.
World War II
Interred between Vincenzo and Vincenzina Guastella.
contributor Maureen Keillor
Service #O-818860
Was Pilot of B-24 #42-51098, which collided on 16 August 1944 above Zerbst, Germany, with B-24 #42-52447 of the same Squadron. Crashed near Mosigkau, 7km SW of Dessau, Germany, about 200m from the crash location of 447. Wounded, he was captured and brought to hospital where he died 3 days later. Died of Wounds (DOW) as a prisoner of War (POW) (American Air Museum, Duxford)
While serving on his eighteenth mission as a pilot on a bomber over his target at Dassau, Germany, he was shot down by anti aircraft fire, receiving mortal wounds in action, from which wounds he died three days later in a prisoner of war hospital.
World War II
Interred between Vincenzo and Vincenzina Guastella.
contributor Maureen Keillor
