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Ambrosini Edward

Name:
Edward Ambrosini
Rank:
Technical Sergeant
Serial Number:
32862617
Unit:
742nd Bomber Squadron, 445th Bomber Group
Date of Death:
0000-00-00
State:
New York
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Decoration:
Air Medal w/2 OLC
Comments:

Born in 1924. Enlisted on 13 March 1943 from Kings County, NY. Radio Operator of the B-24 G, 42-78240, "Our Love", which took off from near Bari, Italy on a bombing run of a train yard in Bucharest, Romania. Over the target, the plane was struck by anti-aircraft fire and thus fell out of formation and was attacked by five German fighter planes on the return flight, which brought the plane down. Ambrosini escaped the doomed aircraft through the plane's waist window. He was captured by Bulgarian soldiers and held as POW in the Shumen POW camp in Shumen, Bulgaria until the end of the war. When the Russians came through he escaped and evaded to freedom.