Samuel Mastrogiacomo
Military
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Object Number - UPL 23764 - Sam Mastrogiacomo portrait in flight jacket.
Mission 24 February 1944: under fighter attack for 2 hours & 30 minutes. Of 25 B-24s over the target, 13 were shot down. The Messerschmitt factory was 80% destroyed. Shot down 9 April 1944 in B-24 42-7627 'BTO. ' Landed in Sweden. Interned.
AM w/ 5 Oak Leaf Cluster
3 Fw 190s
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Nicknames: B.T.O. (Big Time Operator)
- Unit: 445th Bomb Group 702nd Bomb Squadron
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Born |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1 January 1922 | |
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Other Interned |
9 November 1944 | ||
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Died |
Edgewater, Fl. | 2 November 2018 |
Revisions
Philly.com news article: http://articles.philly.com/2003-10-26/news/25464237_1_b-24-bombers-plane
and
Autobiography: For God And Country: In That Order written by Samuel Mastrogiacomo
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self, MACR 3943 & Page 342 in the book 2ND AIR DIVISIONby Turner Publishing Company, 1998 edition (D790.A2S45)
