First Lieutenant, 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd
Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, World War II.
Bombardier, and one of ten airmen killed
aboard B-17G Flying Fortress #42-31845
when his plane collided with B-17 #42-38105 while returning from bombing mission to Budapest, Hungary, and crashing near the Hvarski Channel over Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia).
The airmen killed were:
1st Lt. Irving S Wacker, Pilot
Flt. Off. Daniel W Heasley, Co-pilot
1st Lt. Robert A. Leffler, Bombardier
1st Lt. William F O'Brien, Navigator
T/Sgt. Franklin N Anderson, Radio Operator
T/Sgt. Michael A Soltesz
T/Sgt. Marion J Spagnolo
S/Sgt. Jerome F Beshoner
S/Sgt. Jerry A Giuliano
S/Sgt. Herbert A Pritchard
Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, World War II.
Bombardier, and one of ten airmen killed
aboard B-17G Flying Fortress #42-31845
when his plane collided with B-17 #42-38105 while returning from bombing mission to Budapest, Hungary, and crashing near the Hvarski Channel over Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia).
The airmen killed were:
1st Lt. Irving S Wacker, Pilot
Flt. Off. Daniel W Heasley, Co-pilot
1st Lt. Robert A. Leffler, Bombardier
1st Lt. William F O'Brien, Navigator
T/Sgt. Franklin N Anderson, Radio Operator
T/Sgt. Michael A Soltesz
T/Sgt. Marion J Spagnolo
S/Sgt. Jerome F Beshoner
S/Sgt. Jerry A Giuliano
S/Sgt. Herbert A Pritchard
First Lieutenant, 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd
Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, World War II.
Bombardier, and one of ten airmen killed
aboard B-17G Flying Fortress #42-31845
when his plane collided with B-17 #42-38105 while returning from bombing mission to Budapest, Hungary, and crashing near the Hvarski Channel over Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia).
The airmen killed were:
1st Lt. Irving S Wacker, Pilot
Flt. Off. Daniel W Heasley, Co-pilot
1st Lt. Robert A. Leffler, Bombardier
1st Lt. William F O'Brien, Navigator
T/Sgt. Franklin N Anderson, Radio Operator
T/Sgt. Michael A Soltesz
T/Sgt. Marion J Spagnolo
S/Sgt. Jerome F Beshoner
S/Sgt. Jerry A Giuliano
S/Sgt. Herbert A Pritchard
Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, World War II.
Bombardier, and one of ten airmen killed
aboard B-17G Flying Fortress #42-31845
when his plane collided with B-17 #42-38105 while returning from bombing mission to Budapest, Hungary, and crashing near the Hvarski Channel over Yugoslavia (present-day Croatia).
The airmen killed were:
1st Lt. Irving S Wacker, Pilot
Flt. Off. Daniel W Heasley, Co-pilot
1st Lt. Robert A. Leffler, Bombardier
1st Lt. William F O'Brien, Navigator
T/Sgt. Franklin N Anderson, Radio Operator
T/Sgt. Michael A Soltesz
T/Sgt. Marion J Spagnolo
S/Sgt. Jerome F Beshoner
S/Sgt. Jerry A Giuliano
S/Sgt. Herbert A Pritchard
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