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FLT O Henry Di Benedetto
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FLT O Henry Di Benedetto Veteran

Birth
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
31 Mar 1945 (aged 21)
At Sea
Monument
Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Tablets of the missing
Memorial ID
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WORLD WAR II
Flight Officer, Henry DiBenedetto
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
While on a training run, the B-29 lost three engines and ditched in the Caribbean Sea, just off Aguidilla Pueblo, Aguadilla, Puerto Rica. They performed a control ditch. All but three of the crew survived.
Died: 31-Mar-45

U.S. Army Air Forces
Service # T-138922
461st Bomber Squadron, 346th Bomber Group, Very Heavy
B-29A # 42-55287
Entered the service from Pennsylvania

Tablets of the Missing at East Coast Memorial
New York City, USA

partial Crew of B-29A # 42-55287
Fl. Of. Henry DiBenedetto
Cpl. Carl Dallas Gilmore
Cpl. Carl Dallas Gilmore
2nd/Lt. Joseph F. Linnane
WORLD WAR II
Flight Officer, Henry DiBenedetto
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
While on a training run, the B-29 lost three engines and ditched in the Caribbean Sea, just off Aguidilla Pueblo, Aguadilla, Puerto Rica. They performed a control ditch. All but three of the crew survived.
Died: 31-Mar-45

U.S. Army Air Forces
Service # T-138922
461st Bomber Squadron, 346th Bomber Group, Very Heavy
B-29A # 42-55287
Entered the service from Pennsylvania

Tablets of the Missing at East Coast Memorial
New York City, USA

partial Crew of B-29A # 42-55287
Fl. Of. Henry DiBenedetto
Cpl. Carl Dallas Gilmore
Cpl. Carl Dallas Gilmore
2nd/Lt. Joseph F. Linnane


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