Louis Ajello
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 445th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down on Kassel mission and crashed at Krauthausen in B-24 #42-51355
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Killed in Action (KIA) 09/27/44 Shot down on Kassel mission crashed at Krauthausen in B-24 #42-51355
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 445th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down on Kassel mission and crashed at Krauthausen in B-24 #42-51355
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 445th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA). Shot down on Kassel mission and crashed at Krauthausen in B-24 42-51355
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 445th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down on Kassel mission crashed at Krauthausen in B-24 #42-51355
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 445th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down on Kassel mission crashed at Krauthausen in B-24 #42-51355
Military | Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 445th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down on Kassel mission and crashed near Krauthausen in B-24 #42-51355
Military | Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 445th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) 27 September 1944 in B-24 #42-51355
Group
The 445th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Tibenham, Norfolk. The crews' first mission was bombing U-boat installations at Kiel on 13 December 1943. The Group continued to hit strategic targets in Germany, including the aircraft components factory...
Squadron
B-24 Liberator
27 September 1944
This mission is conducted by three elements against industrial targets, an oil refinery and an aircraft factory in Germany. A total of 1,192 heavy bombers are dispatched from 1st, 2nd and 3rd Bomb Divisions:
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Born | Brooklyn, NY, USA | 12 May 1923 |
Parents: Philip Aaron and Freda Aaron née Krause |
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Enlisted | Hartford, CT, USA | 1 July 1942 |
Died | Eisenach, Germany | 27 September 1944 |
killed in action, plane shot down |
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Lived in | Bridgeport, CT, USA | |
Buried | Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri | |
Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri |
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29 April 2021 01:03:19 | acbernstein1 | Changes to events |
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U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs |
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06 January 2020 02:47:47 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "-" in the A/C serial # in the "Summary biography". |
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06 January 2020 02:42:45 | jmoore43 | Changes to unit associations |
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Added a connection to 8th AF. |
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22 November 2014 20:36:44 | Deemax | Changes to events |
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National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. |
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22 November 2014 20:28:22 | Deemax | Changes to events |
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findagrave.com |
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22 November 2014 20:20:44 | Deemax | Changes to events |
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findagrave.com |
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22 November 2014 20:15:13 | Deemax | Changes to events |
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National Archives and Records Administration. U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. |
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22 November 2014 19:43:42 | Deemax | Changes to person associations |
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21 November 2014 13:21:12 | Deemax | Changes to service number |
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Ancestry.com. U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. |
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27 September 2014 18:27:29 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / History of the 445th Bomb Group by Rudolph Birsic / MACR 9393 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |