Louis Pessirilo

Military

Scheduled mission bluestocking weather mission over Germany. de Havilland DH98 Mosquito PR Mk XVI NS752 - Take Off 14:48 hrs crashed after take off from its base Buckley AAF Station 336. KIFA on 25 Mar 1945. Killed in Action (KIA)



Awards: PH.

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Units served with

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'

25th Bomb Group

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

People

Bernard J Boucher

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 653rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 20115383 / O-648253
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

John William Green

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group 324th Bomb Squadron 401st Bomb Squadron 653rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19079017
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

NS752

  • Aircraft Type: Mosquito
  • Unit: 25th Bomb Group 653rd Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

Jamaica, Queens, NY 26 February 1941 Jamaica, New York

Died

Buckley, Flintshire, UK 25 March 1945 de Havilland DH98 Mosquito PR Mk XVI NS752 - Take Off 14:48 hrs crashed after take off from its base Buckley AAF Station 336. 1/Lt. Bernard J Boucher (pilot) - Ok 1/Lt. Louis Pessirilo (nav.) - killed

Born

Kings County, NY

Based

Watton 25 March 1945 Assigned to 653BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF.

Buried

Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, NY Re-Interred Mount Hebron Cemetery Flushing, Queens County, New York

Revisions

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https://www.fold3.com/record/85926357-louis-pessirilo
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77989976/louis-pessirilo

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Removed source information added by Wattonman from biography

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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.

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http://aviation-safety.net

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http://aviation-safety.net

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Sources

Combat Chronology, Unit History; Aerial Intelligence for the 8th Air Force, pg 53-54, 177 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia