Philip Scriffignano
Military ROLL OF HONOUR
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Object Number - UPL 40492 - SSgt Philip Scriffignano, Left Waist Gunner on B17G 42-107076, 563rd Bomber Squadron, 388th Bomber Group. Target of the Focke-Wulf Aircraft...
Philip served as a Staff Sergeant & Left Waist Gunner on B-17G #42-107076, 563rd Bomber Squadron, 388th Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.
He resided in Essex County, New Jersey prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army on July 21, 1942 in Newark, New Jersey. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Shipping and receiving clerk and also as Single, without dependents.
B-17G #42-107076 took off from RAF Knettishall with a target of the Focke-Wulf Aircraft factory at Poznan, Poland. While on this mission they were hit by enemy flak and severely damaged.
Philip was declared "Missing In Action" when his B-17 crashed, due to the damage, into the Baltic Sea seven miles Southeast of Nykobing, near Boto, Denmark during the war. He was awarded the "Distinguished Flying Cross", Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Purple Heart.
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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
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
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Revisions
Added an Association to “Knettishall”, the home base of the 388th BG.
Capitalized the words in the "Role/job" field to aid readability.
ABMC; MACR 3656 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3656 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database