DeStefano Anthony J.

Name:

Anthony J. DeStefano

Rank:

Second Lieutenant

Serial Number:

O-762712

Unit:

3rd Replacement and Training Squadron

Date of Death:

1944-07-04

State:

New York

Cemetery:

Saint Anthony Cemetery, Fredonia, New York

Plot:

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Purple Heart

Comments:

Anthony J. DeStefano was born on September 18, 1920, in Fredonia, New York. He resided in Erie County, New York prior to the war. Anthony served as a Second Lieutenant and Bombardier/Navigator on B-26B #41-18072, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.

On July 4, 1944, his crew failed to return from a short navigational flight out of Toome, North Ireland when their plane crashed in an Antrim hills peat bog, tail first. All men aboard were killed. The crew was buried first in the Lisnabreeny Former American Military Cemetery in England. The cemetery closed in 1948 and their remains were exhumed and transferred. 2LT DeStefano is now buried in the Saint Anthony Cemetery, Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York, USA.

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