John P Sarico

Military
Black and white posed headshot of man wearing a uniform of a jacket, shirt band tie. There are silver wings, ribbons and three medals pinned on the upper left-side of the jacket. One of the medals is a Purple Heart. There is an US Air Force patch on the jacket shoulder. Subject is looking right in lens and is not smiling UPL 60221 UPL 60221 John P. Sarico, 749th BS, 457th BG

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Object Number - UPL 60221 - John P. Sarico, 749th BS, 457th BG

Shot down 25 April 1944 in B-17 42-97070.

Prisoner of War.

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem of the 457th Bomb Group.

457th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-97070

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 750th Bomb Squadron

Places

The mission board of the 457th Bomb Group. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-299-2-457)(16/5/45)(Op's Board's).'

Glatton

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Connington

Stalag XVII-B

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

France 25 April 1944

Revisions

Date
Contributoracbernstein1
Changes
Sources

https://457thbombgroupassoc.org/officers-and-enlisted-men-portraits/

Date
Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter
Changes
Sources

Merged with duplicate record to include information from :
1993 457th BGA Roster;
MACR 4306 ;
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

MACR 4306 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

John P Sarico: Gallery (2 items)

Object number: UPL 50412 - BENDER CREW, 457TH BG Back Row standing L to R: Lt...

Black and white posed headshot of man wearing a uniform of a jacket, shirt band tie. There are silver wings, ribbons and three medals pinned on the upper left-side of the jacket. One of the medals is a Purple Heart. There is an US Air Force patch on the jacket shoulder. Subject is looking right in lens and is not smiling

Object number: UPL 60221 - John P. Sarico, 749th BS, 457th BG