DiNuncio B Streett
MilitaryDiNuncio Barbara STREETT was a bombardier. Shot down on the 1 May 1944 mission to Metz, France, he managed to evade with the help of the Belgian COMET evasion network, only to be arrested later, spending the rest of the war in German prison camps and stalags. Spent some time in the notorious camp of BUCHENWALD and was transferred from there with more than a hundred Allied airmen to other camps, ending up in Stalag Luft 3 in Sagan / Zagan, Poland. Evacuated from there on a Death March and liberated at Stalag 7A in Moosburg by American troops. See www.evasioncomete.be >>> Fiches tab.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19095816
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Armorer - Tail Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 1 May 1944
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Konzentrationslager Buchenwald
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Baltimore, Maryland, United States | 15 April 1915 | |
Died |
Sacramento, California, United States | 30 November 1993 | |
Buried |
National Memorial Cemetery-Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States | ||
Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
Revisions
Research for the COMET Network website www.evasioncomete.org
MACR 4237
Merged with duplicate record to include details from Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4237; Snetterton Falcons, pg 133 & 145