SSGT, US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II
He enlisted in the Army and was an armament gunner on a B-24H aircraft. On May 5, 1944 he was on a mission to bomb the oil fields at Ploesti, Romania when the aircraft's wing was hit by a parachuting member of another aircraft in the formation. Two of the ten crew members survived but Francis Botello did not survive.
He enlisted in the Army and was an armament gunner on a B-24H aircraft. On May 5, 1944 he was on a mission to bomb the oil fields at Ploesti, Romania when the aircraft's wing was hit by a parachuting member of another aircraft in the formation. Two of the ten crew members survived but Francis Botello did not survive.
SSGT, US ARMY AIR FORCES WORLD WAR II
He enlisted in the Army and was an armament gunner on a B-24H aircraft. On May 5, 1944 he was on a mission to bomb the oil fields at Ploesti, Romania when the aircraft's wing was hit by a parachuting member of another aircraft in the formation. Two of the ten crew members survived but Francis Botello did not survive.
He enlisted in the Army and was an armament gunner on a B-24H aircraft. On May 5, 1944 he was on a mission to bomb the oil fields at Ploesti, Romania when the aircraft's wing was hit by a parachuting member of another aircraft in the formation. Two of the ten crew members survived but Francis Botello did not survive.
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