Archie Brazer
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 92nd Bomb Group Fame's Favoured Few
Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. Reg Hammond crew. ETD
Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Leonard Joseph Nitti
Military
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Leonard Nitti of the 92nd Bomb Group
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Top Row: S/Sgt L/J Nitti, S/Sgt R.H. Lippert, S/Sgt H.D. Baugh, TSgt J.C. Depena, S/Sgt D. Minkon Bottom Row: 1st Lt Robert L. Sprout, 1st Lt Reggie L. Hamond not available for this photo F/O Roach who was hospitalized after their last mission Caption can be found at https://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/38564
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Harry Bough, Joel De Pena, Archie Brazer, Leonard Nitti, Danny Minkon, 92nd Bomb Group
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Crew of Fort Worth Jail House, 92nd Bomb Group
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John Duffy, Joel De Pena and Leonard Nitti 92nd Bomb Group
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"Crew of the Week" photo caption, outlining action by Reginald Hammond's crew on 28 March 1945
Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. 30 x missions. Hit trees on Sidown Hill in B-17 44-8436 and crashed. Sole survivor from crash. 5-May-45. Returned to Duty (RTD)
Awards: AM, PH, WWII Victory, EAME.
Service
People
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Reginald Hammond
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 92nd Bomb Group Fame's Favoured Few
Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. 35 x missions. Hit trees on Sidown Hill in B-17 44-8436 and crashed. 5-May-45. Killed in Action (KIA) Awards: DFC, AM(OLC), PH. -
William Roach
Military | Flight Officer | Bombardier/ Navigator | 92nd Bomb Group Fame's Favoured Few
Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. Reg Hammond crew. Wounded in action on 28-Mar-45 in B-17 43-38574 'Russian Lullaby', but continued with his crew to the target and completed the bomb run despite his head wound. ETD ... -
Robert Sprout
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 92nd Bomb Group Fame's Favoured Few
Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. 33 x missions. Hit trees on Sidown Hill in B-17 44-8436 and crashed. 5-May-45. Killed in Action (KIA) Awards: AM (3OLC), PH.
Units served with
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8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945. ... -
92nd Bomb Group Fame's Favoured Few
Group
The 92nd Group sometime after arrivial in the UK converted to the role of in-theater combat crew indocrination and training. For this role, the Group traded its B-17F complement and obtained the B-17E, mostly from the 97th BG which was departing for... -
326th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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43-38574 RUSSIAN LULLABY
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 18/8/44; Hunter 27/8/44; Grenier 8/9/44; Assigned 407BS/92BG [PY-P] Podington 24/9/44; transferred 326/92BG; [JW-P] damaged in taxi accident with Robert O Divver 7/6/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 31/5/46. RUSSIAN LULLABY. -
44-8436 Fort Worth Jail House
B-17 Flying Fortress
On May 5th 1945, just three days before the end of World War II, seven young men climbed into a B-17 from 326th Squadron and took off from RAF Podington. 1st Lt Reginald Hammond, 1st Lt Robert Sprout, 2nd Lt William J Dutton, T/Sgt Jacob Buikema, S/Sgt...
Associated Place
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Podington
Military site : airfield
Built originally to accommodate two RAF bomber squadrons, the first USAAF unit to occupy the base was the 15th Bomb Squadron in September 1942. Podington was then used as a satellite for nearby Chelveston. Work to lengthen the runways, although this... -
Siddown Hill
Crash site
Events
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| Born | Chicago, IL | 2 January 1924 |
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Son of the late Michael J and Catherine [Picerno] Nitti. |
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| Enlisted | Chicago, IL | 20 November 1942 |
| Based | Podington | 1944 – May 1945 |
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Assigned to 326BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Survived fatal crash | Sidown Hill, Hampshire | 5 May 1945 |
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Hit trees on Sidown Hill in B-17 44-8436 and crashed. Sole survivor from crash. 5-May-45. Returned to Duty (RTD) |
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| Died | Hillside, IL | 21 January 2018 |
| Buried | Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery, Hillside, IL | February 2018 |
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Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery |
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Revisions
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| 06 February 2020 18:21:39 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography and events |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 06 February 2020 13:37:19 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, biography, awards and events |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 09 November 2018 13:29:12 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with surname, middlename, firstname, nickname, nationality, service number, highest rank, role, biography, events, person associations, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/record/84469694-leonard-j-nitti |
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