Leo Joseph Czarnota
MilitaryAssigned to 63FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Rodeo to Dummer Lake. Engine failed in vicinity of SE of Lake, baled out near Engden on 27-Nov-44 in P-47D 42-25957 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 10541
Awards: AM, PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
- Unit: 56th Fighter Group 63rd Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Hartford, CT | 29 November 1918 | Son of the late Adolph and Julia [Dombrowski] Czarnota. |
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Enlisted |
Hartford, CT | 26 June 1942 | |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany | 27 November 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. |
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Other Baled out |
Engden, Germany | 27 November 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) Rodeo to Dummer Lake. Engine failed in vicinity of SE of Lake, baled out near Engden on 27-Nov-44 in P-47D 42-25957 POW MACR 10541 |
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Died |
Hartford, CT | 26 August 2010 | |
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Based |
Boxted | 27 November 1944 | Assigned to 63FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Buried |
Mount Saint Benedict Cemetery, Bloomfield, CT | Mount Saint Benedict Cemetery Bloomfield, Hartford County, CT |
Revisions
ContributorAl_Skiff
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 10541 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list