The B-24 number 41-29599 named BOOTS took off at 2331 on 4 July 1944 from Harrington, UK to deliver supplies to the French resistance (Operation Peter). The plane was shot down by flak over Lagney le Sec, France, at 2am on the morning of 5 July. The entire crew of ten was killed. MACR 6991. S/Sgt Abate was a machine gunner.
He was serving as the tail gunner on a B-24H which took off from Harrington at 2331hrs, 4 July 1944 on "Operation Peter" His aircraft was shot down by an ME110 night fighter approximately 35 miles south of Paris. It exploded and crashed 0200hrs at a spot known locally as Les Trois Mares, Lagny-Le-Sec(Oise), France. All eight crew members were KIA. Seven are buried in Epinal. His body was found in a corn field about 200 yards south of the crash site badly mutilated and buried with the right wing gunner in one coffin by the Germans in the French Cemetery at Creil.
He was serving as the tail gunner on a B-24H which took off from Harrington at 2331hrs, 4 July 1944 on "Operation Peter" His aircraft was shot down by an ME110 night fighter approximately 35 miles south of Paris. It exploded and crashed 0200hrs at a spot known locally as Les Trois Mares, Lagny-Le-Sec(Oise), France. All eight crew members were KIA. Seven are buried in Epinal. His body was found in a corn field about 200 yards south of the crash site badly mutilated and buried with the right wing gunner in one coffin by the Germans in the French Cemetery at Creil.
The B-24 number 41-29599 named BOOTS took off at 2331 on 4 July 1944 from Harrington, UK to deliver supplies to the French resistance (Operation Peter). The plane was shot down by flak over Lagney le Sec, France, at 2am on the morning of 5 July. The entire crew of ten was killed. MACR 6991. S/Sgt Abate was a machine gunner.
He was serving as the tail gunner on a B-24H which took off from Harrington at 2331hrs, 4 July 1944 on "Operation Peter" His aircraft was shot down by an ME110 night fighter approximately 35 miles south of Paris. It exploded and crashed 0200hrs at a spot known locally as Les Trois Mares, Lagny-Le-Sec(Oise), France. All eight crew members were KIA. Seven are buried in Epinal. His body was found in a corn field about 200 yards south of the crash site badly mutilated and buried with the right wing gunner in one coffin by the Germans in the French Cemetery at Creil.
He was serving as the tail gunner on a B-24H which took off from Harrington at 2331hrs, 4 July 1944 on "Operation Peter" His aircraft was shot down by an ME110 night fighter approximately 35 miles south of Paris. It exploded and crashed 0200hrs at a spot known locally as Les Trois Mares, Lagny-Le-Sec(Oise), France. All eight crew members were KIA. Seven are buried in Epinal. His body was found in a corn field about 200 yards south of the crash site badly mutilated and buried with the right wing gunner in one coffin by the Germans in the French Cemetery at Creil.
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Entered the Service from Massachusetts.
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Records on Ancestry
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1940 United States Federal Census
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1930 United States Federal Census
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U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
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U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949
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U.S., World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas
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