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Personal info

Full name
LENTI, Neal Marshall
Date of birth
27 July 1916
Age
27
Place of birth
New York City, New York
Hometown
Hampden County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
O-673594
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Function
Navigator
Unit
565th Bombardment Squadron,
389th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
8 October 1943
Place of death
Spieka-Neufeld, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
H 9 13

Immediate family

Members
Attilio Lenti (father)
Gilda (Varca) Lenti (mother)
Eleanor M. (Brown) Lenti (wife)
Neal Lenti Howard (son)

Plane data

Serial number
42-63958
Data
Type: B-24D
Nickname: Lucky Tiger
Target: Bremen, Germany
Mission: Operational
MACR: 2444

More information

2nd Lt Neal M. Lento was born to immigrant parents from Italy. The family moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, where Neal´s father, Attilio, ran a hotel. Lt Neal attended high school for four years and was employed at Swift River Woolen Company

He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 18 March 1942 at Springfield, Massachusetts
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After bombing the target, the plane fell out of formation. It was pursued by fighters. The plane spiraled off to the right with flames in the cockpit. Two parachutes emerged out from the plane.
Bodies were recovered on October 12 from tidal lands at Spieka-Neufeld by a detail from the Sea Airbase at Wesermünde. Germany.

He was initially buried at the cemetery of Brockeswalde, Germany on 16 October 1943.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Terry Hirsch, 389bombgroup, NARA, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.findagrave.com - Bob Ravener, www.ancestry.com - Vermont Marriage Record, New York, New York Birth Index

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, AWF Polderman Kamerman, www.findgrave.com - Bob Ravener