Frank Salvatore Marcera

Military

Object Number - UPL 45257 - Leslie A. Lennox Crew 95th BG - 336th BS Standing Left to Right: Frank S. Marcera (TG), Dale M. Avers (WG), Marion Makarawicz (BTG), Robert A....

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Units served with

The insignia of the 95th Bomb Group.

95th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Melford P Abraham

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-886845
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot; Pilot

Virgil J Deckard

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Leslie Ashton Lennox

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-822749
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

John D Waddell

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-31887

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Big Casino
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron

42-31939

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Spook Six
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron 412th Bomb Squadron

42-97194

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Good Pickin
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron
The nose art of a B-17G Flying Fortress (serial number 42-97334) nicknamed "H-a-a-rd Luck!" of the 390th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '390.'

42-97334

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: H-a-a-rd luck !
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron

42-97383

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: N-nan
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron 336th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Personnel of the 355th Fighter Squadron at a briefing before a bomber escort mission, the tail markings of the B-24 Liberators they will escort are exhibited on the map. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'D Lewin in Breifing Room 13/1/45'

791

  • Date: 13 January 1945

785

  • Date: 7 January 1945

781

  • Date: 5 January 1945
A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5725) nicknamed "This is IT!" of the 381st Bomb Group opens her bomb bay doors during a mission.

770

  • Date: 30 December 1944

766

  • Date: 28 December 1944

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Mt. Morris, NY 8 August 1922

Enlisted

Rochester, NY 17 November 1942

Other

95th BG Combat Tour

Horham Airfield, UK 2 August 1944 - 7 January 1945 10 - VJ Deckard Crew 15 - Leslie Lennox Crew 6 - JD Waddell Crew 1 - Abraham Crew 1 - Cotner Crew

Died

Rochester, NY 25 January 2001

Buried

Rochester, NY 29 January 2001 Holy Sepulchre Cemetery Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA Plot Section: A/FRAN - St. Francis of Assisi ASM Plot: 41 Grave: F1

Revisions

Date20 Sep 2020 02:57:20
Contributor466thHistorian
ChangesChanges to middlename, service number, highest rank, role, events, person associations, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations
Sources

http://www.ww2enlistment.org/index.php?page=directory&rec=3056054
https://95thbg.mmsw.eu/person/4191
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60901&h=390489…
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174177669/frank-s.-marcera

Date27 Sep 2014 18:10:10
ContributorAAM
ChangesAAM ingest
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://95thbg.org/95th_db_pages/left_formation_code/gethonoroll.php

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