Homer Wilson Dallacqua
Military
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42-52226 Valerie Lemanski Holley Collection
Valerie Lemanski Holley Collection
Object Number - UPL 27642 - Drawing by 1st Lt Richard F. Lemanski Pilot 42 31574 Stalag Luft 1 Barth, Germany ( Please if you have any photos of 2nd Lt. Homer W. Dallacqua...
Homer Dallacqua was Navigator on B-24H #41-28642 'Libby Raider', which crashed on landing after a practice mission on 2 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). He was also Navigator on board B-24H #42-52226, which fell out of formation after fighter attacks on a mission to Genshagen near Berlin on 6 March 1944. The crew baled over the IJsselmeer, Noord-Holland Province, The Netherlands, with Dallacqua one of the three rescued, the seven others drowning. Prisoner of War (POW).
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 734th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38244011
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 734th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31248226
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 734th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 734th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37440169
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
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| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
12 November 1921 | Chicago, Illinois, United States | |
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Enlisted |
14 April 1942 | Detroit, Michigan | |
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Other bailed out |
6 March 1944 | of B-24H #42-52226, over Noord-Holland | |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
6 March 1944 | rescued out of the water by Dutch fishermen together with Cripe and Anderson, but immediately arrested by German sea patrol boat. Interned at Stalag Luft 1, Barth, Germany. NARA WWII POW record : “Returned to Military Control 4 June 1945.” | |
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Died |
4 April 2007 | Agoura Hills, California | |
| Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan |
Revisions
MACR 2970
NARA WWII Enlistment records
NARA WWII POW records
WWII Draft Card
SSDI (Social Security Death Index)
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2970, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces