Joseph John Carpinetti
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Photo taken 19 September 2012, Gary Atkins
Involved in a mid-air collision with another B-17 from the same group on return from operations to airfields in GB on 21 Feb 1944 in B-17G 42-31370 and crashed on Reedham Marshes, Norfolk. Killed in Action (KIA).
There is conflicting information on location of enlistment. American Battle Monuments Commission indicates VA, USA while National Archives and Records Administration indicates Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA.
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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
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Sugar Notch, PA, USA | 7 August 1920 | |
Enlisted |
Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA | 25 July 1942 | |
Died |
Reedham, Norwich, Norfolk, UK | 21 February 1944 | |
Buried |
Coton, Cambridge, UK | At Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Findagrave.com 56288399 |
Revisions
Combat Chronology, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia