Libero J Bernagozzi
MilitaryLeft formation and crashed on return from attack of the secondary target, the steelworks at Frankfurt, on 4 Feb 1944 in B-17F #42-30758 'Rosie's Riveters. ' Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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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: Satcha Lass aka Rosie's Riveters
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 418th Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
4 February 1944 |
Revisions
Added an Association to the 100th BG, the parent bomb group of the 349th, 350th, 351st & 418th Bomb Squadrons & the 412th Air Service group.
Added an Association to “Thorpe Abbotts”, the home base of the 100th BG.
Added S/N per info on the 100th BG website.
Libero Bernagozzi and my father were friends for decades, which is how I know that his nickname was Lib. They did a lot of fishing together, and I was fortunate to have been invited along on some of those fishing trips.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2344 / MACR 2344, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database