Dominic J Angelini
Military
Aerial Gunner
340th BG - 487th BS - 12th AF
Object Number - UPL 55185 - SSGT Dominic J. Angelini Aerial Gunner 340th BG - 487th BS - 12th AF
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Ninth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Advanced Landing Ground Alesanie
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Camden, New Jersey | 20 November 1923 | |
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Other Combat Mission |
Ponte Tidone, Italy | 11 November 1944 | |
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Other Combat Mission |
Calliano, Italy | 10 December 1944 | 43-4031 |
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Other Combat Mission |
Lavis, Italy | 22 December 1944 | |
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Other Combat Mission |
Borovnica, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) | 27 December 1944 | 43-4011 |
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Other Combat Mission |
Borovnica, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) | 28 December 1944 | 43-4011 |
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Other Combat Mission |
Trento, Italy | 20 January 1945 | |
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Other Combat Mission |
Rovereto, Italy | 31 January 1945 | 43-4031 |
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Other Combat Mission |
Lavis, Italy | 4 February 1945 | |
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Died |
Glassboro, New Jersey | 1 July 2017 | Mr. Angelini was born in Camden to Italian immigrant parents, and grew up in South Camden. His father worked as a coal stoker in a factory. According to a biographical account provided by son-in-law Joseph Tanfani, Mr. Angelini would tell stories of a rough childhood. As an 11-year-old during the Depression, he would buy fruit at the Camden produce market, load it in a wagon, and hawk it throughout the city's neighborhoods. He never went home until every piece was gone, he remembered. He enlisted in the Army in 1943 in World War II, and served in the Army Air Corps in Corsica, in the 57th Bomb Wing, 487th Squadron. Assigned as a turret gunner in a B-25 bomber, Mr. Angelini flew on bombing runs targeting bridges and German supply routes in Italy. The Army continually increased the number of required missions (as remembered in the novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, who also served in the 57th Bomb Wing), and Mr. Angelini eventually flew 65 combat missions before his discharge in 1945, Tanfani, a former Inquirer reporter, wrote. After the war, Mr. Angelini worked at New York Shipyard in Camden before enrolling in the Hussian School of Art on the GI Bill. As a designer for Price Brothers Lithograph in Bridgeton, he designed labels on cans for many products, including for Goya Foods. In 1979, he went to work for the Franklin Mint in Philadelphia, where he designed commemorative coins and sculptures. He designed a $100 gold piece for Egypt, picturing Nefertiti, and rendered a series of Raphael paintings as coins. He met the former Tina Trifiletti of Glassboro at a dance, and they married in 1953. They moved to Glassboro, where he built a home in the Chestnut Ridge section. He encouraged his wife to get her college degree, and in her later career as a teacher in Glassboro schools. Most of his family, including his children, lived within driving distance, something he appreciated. |
| Camden, New Jersey | 338 Walnut Worked for Camden Copper |
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