Joseph Catapano
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
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Military
Flew 32 missions, starting 22 April 1944 and ending 16 July 1944
DFC/ Air Medal
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Gunner | 466th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Flight Engineer (?) | 466th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
Group
The 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the...
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator
Military site : airfield
Attlebridge was constructed for RAF use and completed to that standard in 1942. However, with news that it was to be assigned to the American Air Force, the runways were extended and additional hardstandings and outbuildings constructed for the heavy...
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Dunn, North Carolina | 3 February 1920 |
Enlisted | Fort Bragg, NC, USA | 31 March 1942 |
466th BG Combat Tour | RAF Attlebridge | 25 April 1944 – 8 July 1944 |
Died | Warsaw, NC, USA | 3 December 2007 |
Mr. Samuel Erastus Godwin, age 87, of Warsaw, died Monday, December 3, 2007, at home. |
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Buried | Warsaw, NC, USA | 5 December 2007 |
Devotional Gardens |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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10 April 2020 00:10:30 | 466thHistorian | Changes to events |
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"Attlebridge Arsenal" - Brassfield & Wassom |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
17 February 2015 05:14:04 | 466thHistorian | Changes to middlename, awards, events and aircraft associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
17 December 2014 01:54:56 | 466thHistorian | Changes to place associations |
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466th BG Historian |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:24:58 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self |