Alfred Joseph Antonacci
Military ROLL OF HONOURAssigned to 327BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. Blair Belongia crew. Ditched in Channel 5-Sep-43, on return from mission to Stuttgart due to fuel shortage in B-17 42-30668. All crew rescued by ASR.
Failed to Return (FTR) Schweinfurt 4-Oct-43 in B-17 42-30668; enemy aircraft KO’d #2, and wing on fire, crashed Gerolstein, Germany Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 745
Awards: AM, PH (OLC).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 327th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16022483 / O-442762
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
Places
- Site type: Cemetery
- Known as: Luxembourg American Cemetery
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
New Jersey | 5 September 1923 | Son of Alfred Antonacci Sr. |
Enlisted |
Newark, NJ | 22 October 1942 | Newark, New Jersey |
Died Killed in Action (KIA) |
Gerolstein, Germany | 4 October 1943 | Failed to Return (FTR) Schweinfurt 4-Oct-43 in B-17 42-30668; enemy aircraft KO’d #2, and wing on fire, crashed Gerolstein, Germany KIA MACR 745 |
Buried |
Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial | Tablets of the Missing Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial Hamm, Luxembourg | |
Based |
Podington | 4 October 1943 | Assigned to 327BS, 92BG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Combined two entries into a single entry. Record includes information from the following sources:
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor; MACR 745, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Biship & Hey pp. 268, 302
https://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WW…
http://www.fold3.com/image/28604479/
MACR 745 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database