GIAMALVA Santo A - 366 FS 358 FG

 

 Santo Anthony GIAMALVA

 

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Source : 

NUMBER OF SERVICEO-820257
AGE22 yo
DATE OF BIRTH17 May 1922
ENLISTMENT STATEALABAMA
FAMILYParents: Frances MILAZZO & Vito GIAMALVA
RANKSecond Lieutenant
FONCTIONPilot
JOB BEFORE ENLISTEMENT NE
DATE of ENLISTEMENT 
  SQUADRON Flight D
366th Fighter Squadron
 GROUP358th Fighter Group
ARMY9th US Air Force
DATE OF DEATH14 August 1944

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Source : F Lavernhe

STATUSKIA
PLACE OF DEATHRanes (61)
DATA PLAN 

 P-47 D-26-RE 42-28361 

blosville

Macr : 8505

Mission :Army Reconnaissance on Rânes (61)

Take-off 9:00 a.m. from A-14 Cretteville (50)

Was flying in # 4 of the section
Fighter training - Photo Fana de l'Aviation HS n ° 54

Engine stopped (perhaps by firing a fighter) - The pilot tries to land in an emergency but in a too short field - The plane turns over and breaks up - 11:00 a.m.

CEMETERY TEMPORARY

 

CEMTERY TEMPORARY of  Goron N°3527

blosville

Story of Cemetery Temporary 

PlotRowGrave
A591

 

CEMETERYBRITTANY AMERICAN CEMETERY of St James (Montjoie St Martin)

Map of St James American Cemetery

GRAVE
PlotRowGrave
K422
DECORATION

Air Medal & 3 Oak Leaf Clusters

Purple Heart

World War II Victory Medal

Brevet Pilote

 

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Photo FDLM

victory medal

combat infantryman badge

 
usaf 9af 406fg 514fs
STORY
 

Born May 17, 1922 in Birmingham, Alabama.

 

- Engaged in Birmingham, Alabama on August 14, 1942.
-Promoted pilot at Marianna Field, FL, in March 1944.
- Transferred to 358th FG / 366th FS on June 02, 1944.
- Shot down a German plane on July 14, 1944.
. -Touched by the FLAK and crash on August 14, 1944.
- Interred provisionally in the provisional cemetery of GORRON on August 17, 1944.
- Entered permanently in the cemetery of ST JAMES on April 9, 1949.

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SOURCE INFORMATION & SOURCE PHOTOAlexis Boban - Francecrashes39-45.net - 39-45 GRP - Aerosteles.net - 
PROGRAMMERHenri, Garrett, Clive, Frédéric & Renaud
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