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Personal info

Full name
FASANELLO, Daniel John
Date of birth
19 May 1922
Age
21
Place of birth
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey
Hometown
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey

Military service

Service number
32570351
Rank
Technical Sergeant
Function
Radio Operator
Unit
710th Bombardment Squadron,
447th Bombardment Group, Heavy
Awards
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Missing in Action
Date of death
11 March 1944
Place of death
Close to Haamstede on Schouwen-Duivenland, Zeeland, The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Walls of the Missing

Immediate family

Members
Joseph Fasanello (father)
Rose Fasanello (mother)
Lucy Fasanello (sister)
John Fasanello (brother)
Minnie Fasanello (sister)
Albert Fasanello (brother)
James Fasanello (brother)
Margaret Fasanello (sister)
Mae Fasanello (wife)

Plane data

Serial number
42-97484
Data
Type: B-17G
Destination: Munster, Germany
Mission: Bombing of the marshalling yards
MACR: 3188

More information

T/Sgt Daniel J. Fasanello was a welder before he enlisted in Newark, New Jersey on 30 October 1942.

The aircraft last sighted at 1105 hours, approximately 25 miles off the coast of Holland in a westerly direction from Voorne with one and possible to engines on fire trying evasive tactics to put fire out. The aircraft appeared and reappeared several times above clouds and when last seen under control and preparing to ditch in the channel.

Nine crew members were killed. One crew member, tail gunner S/Sgt Julius H. Schultz was taken prisoner. Most of them landed on a sandbank at low tide, but pleas for help to German workers and soldiers as tide came in were ignored and they all drowned. After war searches for those responsible failed.

All the deceased crew members were buried at the military cemetery of Haamstede.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Terry Hirsch, Peter Schouteten, www.447bg.com, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.fold3.com - MACR, WWII Draft Cards

Photo source: Jac Engels, Newark Evening News - 25 February 1944