Name:
Demetrios Karnezis
Rank:
First Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-735598
Unit:
560th Bomber Squadron, 388th Bomber Group
Date of Death:
2020-02-05
State:
Virginia
Cemetery:
Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, Dixon, Solano County, California, USA
Plot:
Section 22
Row:
Grave:
Site 36
Decoration:
Comments:
Of Norfolk, Virginia. Pilot of the B-17 Bomber Slightly Dangerous, taken off from Knettingshall on a mission to Stuttgart, was hit by anti-aircraft fire and attacked by six fighters, shooting four of them down. It crashed at Chapelle-Champigny, damaging a house. The lady-owner was killed. Two members, after successful parachute jumps, got back to England, two others were taken prisoners by the Germans but five others were killed in the crash. Karnezis survived the jump and escaped back to England.