Vincent P Filippone
MilitaryAssigned to 3rd Combat Crew Replacement Center, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) short navigational flight out of Toome, Nth Ireland in B-26B 41-18072 when it crashed in an Antrim hills peat bog, tail first. Killed non Operational (KNO).
Awards: PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Unit
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Other
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center
- Service Numbers: 33067613 / O-815093
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bomber pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
- Unit: No 3 Combat Crew Replacement Center 322nd Bomb Group 450th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Lisnabreeny
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Brooklyn, NY, USA | 29 January 1923 | |
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Enlisted |
New York, NY, USA | 24 November 1942 | |
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Died |
Antrim BT41, UK | 4 July 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) short navigational flight out of Toome, Nth Ireland in B-26B 41-18072 when it crashed in an Antrim hills peat bog, tail first. Killed non Operational (KNO). |
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Buried/ Commemorated |
Lisnabreeny American Military Cemetery | 5 July 1944 | Interred Lisnabreeny American Military Cemetery |
| Kings City, New York | |||
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Based |
Toome | 4 July 1944 | Assigned to 3rd Combat Crew Replacement Center, 8AF USAAF. |
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Buried/ Commemorated |
2040 Wellwood Ave, Farmingdale, NY 11735, USA | Re-Interred Long Island National Cemetery East Farmingdale Suffolk County New York, USA |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces Vol. IV by Bishop & Hey, p.29, MACR 15113, NARA