The Man Behind the Name
§ Biography
Internment in Switzerland
On 7 January 1944, 2nd Lt. Peter Zarafonetis was serving as navigator aboard B-24H (42-7519) of the 328th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group, on a mission to Ludwigshafen, Germany. The aircraft suffered mechanical failure and made an emergency landing at Dübendorf airfield, Switzerland. Zarafonetis and his entire crew were interned for the remainder of the war. (MACR 2367)
Service record.
§ As Catalogued
Rank
2nd Lieutenant
Position
Navigator
Missions flown.
1 catalogued · 07 Jan 1944
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
№ 178
07 Jan 1944
Ludwigshafen
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42-7519
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Sources.
§ Provenance
Tony North · Second Air Division Digital Archive · 0
Personal memoir