Name:
Joseph John Lamansky
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-744071
Unit:
711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group
Date of Death:
1943-12-30
State:
Iowa
Cemetery:
Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France
Plot:
B
Row:
24
Grave:
61
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:
Navigator of the B-17 “Maid to Please”. Took off from Rattlesden in the UK to bomb factories in Ludwigshafen. Shot down by German fighters over Coudray Farm (between Berville andHenonville, France) at 1309 on December 30, 1943. LT Lamansky was killed by flak as the plane was still flying. Son of Harry G. Lamansky of East Pleasant Plain, Iowa.