Harry J. Ambrosini
Birger Bendtsen
Updated:
03 JAN 2012
Airman: a073002.htm Surname: Ambrosini
Init: H J Rank: T/Sgt Service: USAAF
Sqdn: 715 P_link: p306.htm
Plane: B24 41-29479 Operation: Bomb G
Crash_site: Near
Poulsker Crash_d: d290444 Buried_d: b020544
C_link: c073.htm At_Next: Pedersker
B24 41-29479 "Gypsy
Moth" var den 29. april 1944 med start fra basen Seething
på bombetogt til
Berlin. (Kilde: FT 87-93-6) Flyet styrtede ned
her ved Jomfrugård, Strandmarksvejen 7, 3730 Nexø omkring 2 km syd for
Poulsker. Ambrosini styrtede ned
her.
(Kilde: Niels Christian Pihl)
"Under et bombetogt til Berlin den 29. april 1944
fløj et beskadiget (brændende) amerikansk fly ind over Bornholm. Hele
besætningen, 10 mand, sprang ud med faldskærm, men Sgt Ambrosinis faldskærm
foldede sig ikke ud. Han blev dræbt
på Munkegårds grund kl. ca. 14.30.
Begravelsen fandt sted den 2. maj." (FAF)
Harry J. Ambrosini
er en af de
5 amerikanske flyvere, der stadig hviler på en
kirkegård i Danmark.
Se kortet USAAF med alle
amerikanske flyvere begravet i Danmark.
Starting from
Seething Airfield on 29 April 1944
B24 41-29479 "Gypsy
Moth"
was on a
bombing raid to
Berlin. (Source: FT 87-93-6)
The plane crashed
here at Jomfrugård, Strandmarksvejen 7, DK-3730 Nexø about 2 km south of
Poulsker. Ambrosini crashed
here. (Source:
Niels Christian Pihl)
"On a bombing raid to Berlin on 29 April 1944 a
damaged (burning) American plane flew in over Bornholm. All of the crew, 10 men,
bailed out with parachutes, but
Sgt Ambrosini´s parachute did not open. He was
killed on Munkegård´s soil at about 14:30. The funeral took place on 2 May." (FAF)
Harry J. Ambrosini is one of 5 American airmen who still rest in a churchyard in Denmark. See the map USAAF with all American airmen buried in Denmark.
(At this airman you only read his story. See the
others at
B24 41-29479.)
This
B-24H Liberator belonged to 715th Bombardment Squadron,
448th Bombardment Group, (Heavy) 8th
Air Force. See 8th Air Force in World War
II.
10 airmen.