Name:
Vincent P. Filippone
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
12188487
Unit:
3rd Replacement and Training Squadron
Date of Death:
1944-07-04
State:
New York
Cemetery:
Long Island National Cemetery, New York
Plot:
J
Row:
Grave:
15109
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
Vincent P. Filippone was born on January 29, 1923. He served as a Staff Sergeant and Radio Operator 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. SSGT Filippone is now buried in the Long Island National Cemetery, East Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York, USA.
Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.americanairmuseum.com