Albert J Conte
MilitaryOn 9 November 1942 assigned target U/B at St. Nazaire, France. On return, crashed into field beyond runway in B-17 #41-24494.
Shot down 18 November 1942 in B-17 #41-24474 'Floozy' while serving as Right Waist Gunner. The aircraft was hit by flak over St. Nazaire damaging an engine, letting down over the Bay of Biscay, it was attacked again by FW 190's and the pilot was forced to ditch the aircraft into the sea 2 miles off the Ile d'Oussant off the tip of the Brest Peninsula, France. SSgt Conte was captured POW MACR 16448.
POW
Connections
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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
Missions
- Date: 18 November 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 9 November 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag 17b, Krems an der Donau, Austria
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Krems an der Donau, Austria | 18 November 1942 - 6 June 1945 | Held at Stalag 17B, Braunau-Gneikendorf, near Krems, Austria. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 6-Jun-45. |
Other Ditched |
Ushant, France | 18 November 1942 | Managed to exit aircraft after it was ditched into the sea. |
Revisions
Added an association to Stalag 17B per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Lee Cunningham 26-Nov-2014. Added ditching location and event per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A.Hey MBE; made mission and aircraft connections within existing data.
Lee Cunningham 4-Nov-2014. Missing AIr Crew Report (MACR) 16448; National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs by Hey and Bishop pp.45-47