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Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. Completed 25 x missions as a co-pilot. KIA 8 February 1945. While flying a Joker night-photo mission, he and his navigator Capt. Jacob Hochman were killed. A photo flash bomb failed to release and ignited in the bomb bay, destroying the aircraft. He was the first to pilot an OSS 'Joan Eleanor' mission. He piloted at least 3 OSS missions before going MIA on the 8 February 1945 mission.
Awards: DFC, AM (5OLC), PH.
Military | Captain | Navigator | 25th Bomb Group
Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Joker Mission (nighttime photo recon) to Hamburg in Mosquito NS583; A/C and crew lost after photo flash bomb ignited in bomb bay 8-Feb-45. Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 12161
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Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 25th Bomb Group
Assigned to 653BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. On 1-Mar-45 he was on a successful low-level flight to Berlin to parachute two OSS agents. The mission was flown on a moonlit night at fence-top level all the way. The zigzag course, followed rivers and other...
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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Group
The 25th Bombardment Group (Reconnaissance) was constituted in the days after D-Day and activated in England in August 1944 to carry out photographic and mapping missions over mainland Europe as the Allied armies pushed east. The Group were designated...
Squadron
Mosquito
Assigned to 654th BS, 25th BG, 8th AF. On 8 February 1945, two Joker night-photo ships were dispatched by the 25th BG to photograph Misburg and Hamburg. The Deurog Synthetic Oil Refinery at Misburg had 10/10ths clouds so Hanover was photographed as a...
Mosquito
Assigned to 856BS, 492BG, 8AF USAAF. Approach accident - RAF Winchfield, Hampshire, 25/4/45 - Lt Richard Greene (Nav) KIA, Lt James G. Kuntz (pilot) RTD.
Mosquito
Sold for scrap 07/08/47.
Military site : airfield
Built in 1939 as a medium bomber station with a grass airfield, Watton was occupied by the RAF until handed over to the Eighth Air Force in mid-1943. Improved initially with a single steel mat runway in 1943, plus 41 loop and 12 pan hardstandings, a...
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| Born | Calverton, Suffolk County, New York, United States | 23 March 1922 |
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the son of Polish-born John B. Doroski and his wife Eva |
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| Enlisted | June 1940 | |
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in the Air Corps |
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| Flight training | Chanute Field, IL | 1943 |
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Primary pilot training. Chanute Field, Illinois. |
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| Flight training | Luke Field Pheonix, AZ | June 1943 |
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Advanced pilot training. Luke Field Pheonix, Arizona. Commissioned 2nd Lt. |
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| Based | Watton | 1944 – 8 February 1945 |
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Assigned to 654BS, 25BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Died | Detmold, Germany | 8 February 1945 |
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On 8 February 1945, two Joker night-photo ships were dispatched by the 25th BG to photograph Misburg and Hamburg. The Deurog Synthetic Oil Refinery at Misburg had 10/10ths clouds so Hannover was photographed as a target of opportunity by the first Mosquito. The second aircraft conveyed Capts. Doroski/Hochman (NS583). Both men were airborne at 01:58 hours and last contact with the crew occurred at 02:55 by the continental ground station Nuthouse. When the crew failed to return, Watton contacted 12 Group but the RAF maintained no plots on this aircraft. A search conducted in the area covered by the Mosquito resulted in no trace of either plane or crew. |
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| Buried | Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial | 1946 |
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Tablets of the Missing |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 07 May 2020 21:14:34 | Al_Skiff | Changes to biography, events and aircraft associations |
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56280726/victor-s-doroski |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 01 December 2018 22:06:44 | Emily | Changes to biography |
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Removed source information added by Wattonman from biography |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 01 December 2018 02:36:14 | Wattonman | Changes to biography |
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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 01 December 2018 01:24:23 | Wattonman | Changes to biography |
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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Shiffer Publications Ltd. 2011. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 01 December 2018 01:19:55 | Wattonman | Changes to biography |
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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Shiffer Publications Ltd. 2011. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 02 November 2017 13:40:56 | ED-BB | Changes to biography and events |
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ABMC website |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 30 December 2014 15:38:34 | Al_Skiff | Changes to person associations |
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| 30 December 2014 15:36:27 | Al_Skiff | Changes to awards, events, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:26:29 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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ABMC; Aerial Intelligence of the 8th Air Force, pg 15, 30, 177 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |
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