Edward J Gusciora

Military

Edward J Gusciora UPL 60172 1st Lt Edward J Gusciora

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Object Number - UPL 60172 - 1st Lt Edward J Gusciora

Assigned to 840BS, 483BG,15AF USAAF. Edward was "Killed In Action" over the Ploesti Oil Complex, Romania during the war when his B-17 was shot down by enemy flak.

Awards: AM (3OLC), PH.

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Units served with

Seen through a 433rd Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress' strike camera, a 816th Bomb Squadron B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5786) nicknamed "Whizzer II" goes down over Nis in Yugoslavia on the 15th of April 1944 in a gout of flame after taking a direct flak hit. There were no survivors. Official caption on image: "(483BG:4M3:2VI) (4:15:1208) (24:21300) ([south-west arrow] 140 [degrees]) (Nis M/Y Yugo) (Ship 111 816 Sq)." Handwritten caption on reverse: '15/4/44. 483BG, 15AF. Nis, Yugoslavia. 42-5786

483rd Bomb Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

840th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-102429

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Unit: 483rd Bomb Group 840th Bomb Squadron

42-29696

Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Nicknames: Fort Alamo II
Unit: 416th Bomb Squadron 99th Bomb Group 840th Bomb Squadron 483rd Bomb Group

Places

Amendola

Site type: Airfield

Events

Event	Date	Description
Born	22 June 1922	Born Massachusetts
Enlisted	14 May 1942	Enlisted Albany New York
Died	15 July 1944	Died Ploesti, Romania
Buried	1 January 1948	Interred Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri