Name:
Joseph P. Bova
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-703846
Unit:
850th Bomber Squadron, 490th Bomber Group, Heavy
Date of Death:
1944-06-19
State:
New York
Cemetery:
Brittany American Cemetery, St. James, France
Plot:
B
Row:
13
Grave:
13
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
2nd Lt Joseph P. Bova, navigator of the B-24 Liberator 42-51124, took off from Harrington, UK at 2306 on a weapons drop for the Columneaux cell of the Resistance. Some say the plane clipped a tree and others maintain it collided with an RAF plane but the result is the same: the plane crashed at 0030, leaving no survivors. Bova was initially buried in the Ferrières-en-Gâtinais cemetery before being transferred to Brittany American Cemetery in St. James, France.