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NO LOVE NO NOTHIN' |
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42-52533 |
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00-6 | FREEMAN SMITH |
Port (Left) Side - Transferred from 464th BG
Lost 2 Mar 45, AUT -
MACR 12750 - Pilot
Italo "Chick" M. Gemmato -
Flight Jacket
Contributor -
Brian Smith
Shown with my Father, Freeman Smith (Top Turret Gunner), kneeling 3rd from
right. Crew was shot down over Yugoslavia, after bombing Linz, Austria.
Everyone bailed out and was returned to Allied lines by Tito's Partisans.
| Standing (L-R) Larry Smith – Bombardier/Navigator Norman R. Stickney – Co-Pilot Italo "Chick" Gemmato – Pilot |
Kneeling (L-R) Bill Snow – Engineer Ike Eisenbaum – Nose Gunner Lenny Day – Armor/Gunner Freeman Smith – Top Turret Gunner John Martin – Ball Turret Gunner Bob Linsley – Radio Operator/Gunner |
Info Contributor - Norman R. Stickney
(Co-Pilot)
I served with Lt. Italo "Chick" Gemmato's crew on both
NO LOVE NO NOTHIN'
& EASY MAID (44-49914).
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