Monuments
B-24 Liberator 42-51124 Crash Site Marker
Villeneuve-sur-Auvers American Cemetery Memorial
Name:
Fred Monico
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
32229606
Unit:
850th Bomber Squadron, 801st Bomber Group, Heavy
Date of Death:
1944-06-19
State:
New York
Cemetery:
Long Island Cemetery, New York
Plot:
J
Row:
Grave:
14036
Decoration:
Comments:
SSgt Fred Monico, tail gunner of the B-24 Liberator 42-51124, took off from Harrington, UK at 2306 on a weapons drop for the Columneaux cell of the Resistance. Some say the plane clipped a tree and others maintain it collided with an RAF plane but the result is the same: the plane crashed at 0030, leaving no survivors. Monico was initially buried in the Ferrières-en-Gâtinais cemetery before being transferred to Long Island Cemetery in New York.