Croccia Micheal A

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Micheal A Croccia is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

B-17 �Dark Eyes� (41-24405) Crash Site Memorial

Name:

Micheal A Croccia

Rank:

Station Sergeant

Serial Number:

14061930

Unit:

96th Bomber Squadron, 2nd Bomber Group

Date of Death:

1944-03-19

State:

Tennessee

Cemetery:

Florence American Cemetery, Impruneta (Florence), Italy

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Grave:

Decoration:

Air Medal with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters

Comments:

Michael Croccia was from Tennessee. On March 19, 1944, he was a crewmember (Gunner) of a B-17F �Dark Eyes� (41-24405) flying out of Amendola, Italy on a bombing mission to Klagenfurt, Austria with the 96th Bomber Squadron, 2nd Bomber Group, 5th Bomber Wing, 15th Air Force. On the return trip, the formation was attacked by enemy fighters. �Dark Eyes was attacked by 2 fighters and shot down after being hit by rockets. Eight of the crew were killed to include Croccia and two parachuted to safety but were captured and spent the rest of the war as POWs.

The town of Andra� nad Polzelo in Slovenia, where the bomber crashed, remember the crew of Dark Eyes with a memorial dedicated in 2017.