George D Giovannini
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
Photo courtesy of the USAAF Class Book Project ABMC American Cemeteries website
USAAF Class book project ABMC American Cemeteries website
Object Number - UPL 35079 - Lt George Giovannini. Sunde crew. KIA Noxon crew. 381st BG, 535th BS. Photo courtesy of the USAAF Class Book Project ABMC American Cemeteries website
Co-pilot, Noxon crew. Original member of the Sunde crew. 381st BG, 535th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 1 December 1943 in B-17 #42-31111 "Four Aces-Pat Hand". Mission #46 to the chemical plant at Leverkusen, Germany. MACR 1659. Killed in Action (KIA). The aircraft left formation just after the bomb run and was thought to be lost over the sea. Tablets of the Missing at the Netherlands AMC.
Santa Rosa, CA
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 10601050
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-735295
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32401810
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner; Flight Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37090910
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2044881
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Four Aces, Pat Hand
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 1 December 1943
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, The Netherlands
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Died |
1 December 1943 | ||
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Born |
Santa Rosa, California | ||
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Buried |
Tablets of the Missing |
Revisions
381st Bomb Group Memorial Association, March 1999; MACR 1659 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
