From a B-24 crash site sout Italy

Matteo La Boccia

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Here are some fragments from a B-24 crash site in south Italy. Some idea about fragments and some infos about crew? Thanks!

B-24 40236 (376th BG, 513th BS) shot down by Fw. Heinrich Steis in Bf 109G-6 of JG 27/4. near Potenza, Italy Jul 16, 1943.
6 KIA, 4 POW. MACR 184

Fragments:

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Mary Anne Fieux

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Just another tidbit about my Uncle Eddie. His favorite song was "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes". My mother told me this and I never forgot. I do not know what version though, I assume it would be an early one. To me there is irony about this, considering his B-24 being hit. How smoke can represent love and something so tragic is poetic.

Mary Anne

I don't know the meaning of the song as I prefer the jazz recordings of it, but it seems that your Uncle Eddie had good taste in music too!
 

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