Monuments
B-24 'Double Trouble' (41-29244) Crash Site Marker
B-24 (41-29244) 'Double Trouble' Info Sign
Name:
Salvadore P. Scafidi
Rank:
Sergeant
Serial Number:
11091044
Unit:
725th Bomb Squadron
Date of Death:
1944-02-25
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
Florence American Cemetery, Florence, Italy
Plot:
F
Row:
8
Grave:
37
Decoration:
Air Medal, Purple Heart
Comments:
Left waist gunner of the B-25 Liberator 41-29244 “Double Trouble” that took off from Gioia del Colle, Italy on a mission to bomb the German Messerschmitt aircraft factory by Regensburg. Shot down by anti-aircraft fire over Slovenia. Five crew members went down with the plane and five parachuted from the severely damaged aircraft. Scafidi perished in the crash.