Chester J. Romanosky was born on December 10, 1923 in Throop, Pennsylvania. He enlisted in the Army on April 13, 1942 in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. He was noted as being employed as an Actor and also as Single, without dependents. Chester served as a Sergeant and Radio Operator on B-24 "Repulser" (#41-28843), 715th Bomber Squadron, 448th Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. He was Killed In Action when their B-24 was attacked by heavily-armed ME 410 German fighters and crashed.

On the 22nd April 1944, 26 United States Air Force planes took off from Seething airfield to bomb targets in Nazi Germany, but B-24 Liberator 843 “Repulser” was hit as it returned to base and crashed in fields near Kessingland. Part of the 715th Squadron, the men on board were on their third mission after arriving at the south Norfolk air station in the early spring. Hitler’s Luftwaffe took full advantage of its unusually late return to the UK on that fateful night, caused by poor weather before take-off, and sent a force of heavily-armed ME 410 fighters to intercept the bombers.

SSGT Romanosky is now buried in the Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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