Alfred W. Pessella

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

0-659904

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.

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