Dominick N Lazzaro
MilitaryShot down on 16 February 1943 in B-17F 42-5058 'Hun Hunter' while serving as Navigator. Aircraft was shot down by fighters on mission to St. Nazaire, France and crashed near Morlac, France. He was able to bale out and was captured as Prisoner of War (POW).
Dominick's death was reported in Vol 85 Can Do Notes
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hun Hunter
- Unit: 305th Bomb Group 364th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 16 February 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Moosburg, Germany | 16 February 1943 - 1 June 1945 | Held at Stalag 7A, Moosburg, Bavaria. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 1-Jun-45. |
Born |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 20-Feb-2015. Corrected SN per MACR 15497; Added POW event per National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database; Made connections to Decorations, Place and Mission within existing website data; Added crew position and loss information to Biography per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15477 / MACR 15477, 3 Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. 1 by Bishop and Hey, p. 78 with a picture of the plane. NARA webs site records of POWs. / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database