Victor A La Bruno
Military
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"Formerly a photographer with Acqua Studio in NY City, S/Sgt Victor A Labruno 22 419 2nd St Jersey City NJ, has been given credit for snapping on of the air wars most outstanding pictures while flying as a combat aerial photographer during the 8th AF attack on the synthetic oil plants at Brux, near the border of Czechoslovakia. As more than 100 German fighters attacked the formation of flying fortresses, Sgt LaBruno crouched in the radio room of the Boeing B-17 'Lady Godiva' and caught a dramatic action shot of a Nazi Messerschmidt 410 less than 25 feet of the wing of the big bomber just as the fighter pulled away to start into a dive."
Assigned to 562BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF.
Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Lady Godiva
- Unit: 1st Strategic Air Depot 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 12 May 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Hudson County, NJ, USA | 11 November 1921 | |
Enlisted |
Newark, NJ, USA | 11 August 1942 | |
Other Discharged USAAF |
United States | 5 September 1945 | Honourably discharged. |
Died |
Union County, NJ, USA | 6 August 1974 | |
Buried |
64 Lake Ave, Colonia, NJ 07067, USA | Hazel Wood Cemetery Rahway, Union County, NJ |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.388bg.info/Personnel.html