Louis Pessirilo
MilitaryScheduled mission bluestocking weather mission over Germany. de Havilland DH98 Mosquito PR Mk XVI NS752 - Take Off 14:48 hrs crashed after take off from its base Buckley AAF Station 336. KIFA on 25 Mar 1945. Killed in Action (KIA)
Awards: PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 25th Bomb Group 653rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 20115383 / O-648253
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 25th Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group 324th Bomb Squadron 401st Bomb Squadron 653rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19079017
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: Mosquito
- Unit: 25th Bomb Group 653rd Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Enlisted |
Jamaica, Queens, NY | 26 February 1941 | Jamaica, New York |
Died |
Buckley, Flintshire, UK | 25 March 1945 | de Havilland DH98 Mosquito PR Mk XVI NS752 - Take Off 14:48 hrs crashed after take off from its base Buckley AAF Station 336. 1/Lt. Bernard J Boucher (pilot) - Ok 1/Lt. Louis Pessirilo (nav.) - killed |
Born |
Kings County, NY | ||
Based |
Watton | 25 March 1945 | Assigned to 653BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Buried |
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, NY | Re-Interred Mount Hebron Cemetery Flushing, Queens County, New York |
Revisions
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Sources
Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.
ContributorAAM
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Sources
Combat Chronology, Unit History; Aerial Intelligence for the 8th Air Force, pg 53-54, 177 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia