Anthony L. Piscitelli entered military service in New York. He was a fighter pilot that served with the 55th Fighter Group, 343rd Fighter Squadron during the Second World War. 1Lt Piscitelli was killed while strafing Coulommiers Airdrome (40 km. east of Paris) on April 10, 1944. That day, he took off at airfield station 131 in Nuthampstead on a mission to Coulommiers aerodrome. The Group had been on its first Droop Snoot mission and finished up by strafing. 1Lt. Ralph S. Seely, the crash observer reported: "On April 10, 1944, from 20,000 feet altitude, northeast of the field, Col. Crowell, Lt. Piscitelli and myself went into a steep spiral down to the deck. We approached the field from the northeast, Col. Crowell preceding us into the target, Lt. Piscitelli and myself flying almost line abreast. At the edge of the field, I noticed intense anti-aircraft fire originating at the base of some hangars to our left. We were flying at zero altitude. Lt. Piscitelli caught fire in his right engine. Halfway across the field he was still on fire and still flying at zero altitude. I strafed and observed no aircraft in the hangars, or on the ground. I lost contact with Lt. Piscitelli though I observed black smoke behind me and to the left."

Lt. Piscitelli perished in the crash of his aircraft on the southeast edge of the airfield. The aircraft was 80% destroyed with the only large component remaining to be the right tail boom. The letters CY-B were recorded from that part of the aircraft. On April 11, Lt Piscitelli was buried at Coulommiers Cemetery. After the war, he was moved to the American Military Cemetery at Epinal, in eastern France.

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