Joseph John Carpinetti

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media-15009.jpeg UPL 15009 In the grass, beside the Reedham War Memorial, is a memorial stone for crew members who died when their B17s collided on 21 February 1944.

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Object Number - UPL 15009 - In the grass, beside the Reedham War Memorial, is a memorial stone for crew members who died when their B17s collided on 21 February 1944.

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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The insignia of the 385th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron

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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

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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

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