Michael J Polito

Military
Eleven men in Air Force uniform posed in front of a military airplane. Six men standing to the rear, five men kneeling in front. Large canvas bags are laying in front of kneeling men UPL 67120 UPL 67120 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews/29 January 1944, Frankfurt am Main Rail Yard.
Back L-R: Fillman Thurman (BT), Vincent McGovern (OBS/TG), Michael Polito (FG), Lloyd Estes (TT), William Kinney (B), Harold Groh (N).
Front L-R: George Carroll (RO), Alvin Renfro (FG), Lloyd Armstrong (P), William Buck (AC/CP), Eugene Wilson (N).

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Object Number - UPL 67120 - 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews/29 January 1944, Frankfurt am Main Rail Yard. Back L-R: Fillman Thurman (BT), Vincent McGovern (OBS/TG), Michael Polito...

B-17G #42-32007 crashed North of Charleroi, Belgium after the crew baled out on a mission to Berlin on4 Mar 1944. Evaded.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 384th Bomb Group.

384th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-30033

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Little America
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron 547th Bomb Squadron

42-32007

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 533rd Bomb Squadron 381st Bomb Group 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Dongan Hills, New York, USA

Other

Evaded

Germany 4 March 1944 See Escape and Evasion Report Number 2113

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2740 / MACR 2740, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=… / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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Eleven men in Air Force uniform posed in front of a military airplane. Six men standing to the rear, five men kneeling in front. Large canvas bags are laying in front of kneeling men

Object number: UPL 67120 - 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews/29 January 1944...