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Cranston Fine Arts  Aviation Art World War Two Veteran Signatures United States P  Petrillo, Orlando |
[UP] - Paris, Robert - Park, Howard - Parks, Thomas - Patterson, William - Pattillo, Cuthbert - Pattillo, James - Payne, Lewis - Peterburs, Joseph - Peters, Vincent - Peterson, Carl - Peterson, Cliff - Peterson, Richard - Petrillo, Orlando - Phillips, Robert - Phillips, Ronald - Pisanos, Steve - Platek, Gene - Polin, Howard - Porter, Robert - Poshefko, Joseph - Potter, Henry - Potts, Ramsay - Powell, Lawrence - Powell, Robert - Preston, Ben - Prevost, Herbert - Price, Charles - Priest, Royce |
S/Sgt Orlando Pete Petrillo
Pete Petrillo was a Waist Gunner on the B-17 'Bit o' Lace'. He flew his first combat mission to Caen, France in August 1944, and the last of his 35 missions was in December 1944 to Mainz in Germany. One of his memorable trips was a supply drop to the French Maquis. He died on 12th November 2007 aged 92.
| S/Sgt Orlando Pete Petrillo - Signed Aviation Art |
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Return to Rattlesden by Nicolas Trudgian. With their crews, the 447th Bomb Group B-17 Fortresses arrived at Rattlesden in late 1943, the East Anglian base from which the group flew all its missions until the end of the war. Entering combat on December 24, the 447th targeted submarine pens, naval installations, ports and missile sites, airfields and marshalling yards in France, Belgium and Germany in preparation for the Normandy invasion. In the thick of the bomber offensive, the 447th took part in the Big-Week raids, supported the D-Day landings, aided the breakthrough at St. Lo, pounded enemy positions during the airborne invasion of Holland, and dropped supplies to the Free French forces fighting behind enemy lines. During the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944 - January 1945, the group attacked marshalling yards, railroad bridges and communications centers in the combat zone, later resuming their offensive against targets deep inside Germany. When the war ended the 447th had flown over 257 individual missions, with one of their aircrew, Robert Femoyer, being awarded the Medal of Honor. Theirs was typical of the action packed campaigns flown by the American Eighth Air Force bomb groups in Europe during WWII. Published 2001. Signed by eight combat crew veterans flying B-17 Flying Fortresses for the 447th BG out of Rattlesden, England, during World War II. |
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