Pete D Giughello

Military

Object Number - UPL 18403 - Crew #535 Edward F. Kaspshak Crew 466th BG - 785th BS Standing Left to Right: Edward F. Kaspshak (P), Peter P. Igoe (N), Thomas Baker (B),...

Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down by flak and crashed into English Channel on 7/18/44 in B-24 Spare Parts #4129350

POW

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Units served with

Three little girls hold up a balloon celebrating the 100th mission of the 466th Bomb Group in front of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-95592) nicknamed "Black Cat". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'On our 100 Mission party Day- 18 Aug 1944, Attlebridge, 466th- wouldn't it be something if we could identify these girls? How could I do it?'

466th Bomb Group

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

People

Gene L Carroll

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39085710
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade)
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Robert Donald Fox

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37476827
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade)
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Peter P Igoe

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-712143
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Russell L Jackson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14093866
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Edward F Kaspshak

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-811824
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

41-29350

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Spare Parts
  • Unit: 466th Bomb Group 785th Bomb Squadron

Places

Aerial photograph of Attlebridge airfield, looking north, the fuel store and a T2 hangar are in the upper centre, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90 Squadron, sortie number RAF/3G/TUD/UK/51. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Attlebridge

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Crenshaw, PA 15824, USA 11 June 1918

Enlisted

New Cumberland Army Depot, Fairview, PA, USA 25 April 1942

Other

Shot Down/Captured

Mont Saint-Michel, France 18 July 1944

Died

Killed in Action (KIA)

Crenshaw, PA 15824, USA 20 December 1984 December 20, 1984

Buried

Brockway, PA 15824, USA 23 December 1984 Saint Tobias Cemetery Brockway Jefferson County Pennsylvania, USA
Jefferson County, PA, USA

Revisions

Date23 Oct 2015 01:18:50
Contributor466thHistorian
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466th BG Historian

Date5 Feb 2015 10:07:48
ContributorArleen
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Daughter

Date9 Oct 2014 22:10:30
ContributorArleen
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Pete's daughter & his DD214

Date9 Oct 2014 22:08:38
ContributorArleen
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From his service records.

Date9 Oct 2014 22:08:06
ContributorArleen
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Pete's daughter & his DD214.

Date9 Oct 2014 22:06:32
ContributorArleen
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Pete's daughter

Date9 Oct 2014 21:50:35
ContributorArleen
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Pete's daughter provided the information based on personal knowledge and his DD214.

Date27 Sep 2014 18:21:22
ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8163 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

Pete D Giughello: Gallery (2 items)

Object number: UPL 18403 - Crew #535 Edward F. Kaspshak Crew 466th BG - 785th...

Object number: UPL 42766 - MACR 8163 41-29350 "Spare Parts" 466th BG | 785th...