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Missing Air Crew Report 331
Military Record · United States Army Air Forces · 1943 · Missing Air Crew Reports
Personal File · AirmanKilled in ActionPassed 01 Aug 1943
Alfred W. Pezzella.
Bombardier · Charles "Pat" Murphy Crew · 328th Squadron · Of MA.
The Man Behind the Name
§ Biography
1st Lt. Alfred W. Pessella served as bombardier aboard B-24D serial 42-86897 with the 93rd Bomb Group, commanded by Lt. Col. Addison Baker, on the August 1, 1943 low-level attack on the Ploesti oil refineries in Romania. The aircraft was lost to anti-aircraft fire and crashed and burned at Ploesti. Pessella was reported as a battle casualty and did not survive.
Service record.
§ As Catalogued
Rank
1st Lieutenant
Position
Bombardier
Serial Number
O-659584
Hometown
MA
Missions flown.
1 catalogued · 01 Aug 1943
The missions below are those we have been able to document for this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. It is not necessarily a complete account of every mission flown; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.
№
Date
Target
Aircraft
№ 115
01 Aug 1943
Ploesti, Romania
42-86897
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Interment.
§ At Rest
Cemetery
Florence American Cemetery
Burial
MISSING
Photographs.
2 on file
Read the records.
1 document
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Sources.
§ Provenance
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1943
Official record
United States Army Air Forces · National Archives and Records Administration · 1943
Official record