MANFREDINI

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Personal Details

  • Last Name: MANFREDINI
  • First Name Middle Initial: MARIO
  • Nick Name: MANNY
  • Street:  4432 E SAN MIGUEL
  • Country &State:
  • City: COLORADO SPRINGS, CO
  • State: 
  • Postal Code: 80915
  • Phone: 719 597 6764
  • E-Mail: 
  • Spouse: HELEN R *DECEASED 03-16-99*
  • Age when entered service:
  • Age first entered:
  • War or Conflict: WW II
  • Theater of operations: ETO
  • Year:
  • Branch of Service/s: Army Air Corp
  • Years Served:
  • Date of Discharge / Retirement (circle):
  • Highest Rank: new_value
  • Military MOS (Job Descriptions): ENGINEER, TOP TURRENT GUNNER
  • What military medals received: AIR MEDAL W/3 CLUSTERS, PRISONER OF WAR MEDAL, GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL
Military Bio:

TRYING TIMES When I was ordered to bail out of the front escape hatch, our co-pilot was directly behind me, but he did make it out. His body was later found near the aircraft's wreckage site. When I landed, I noticed a German pilot's chute nearby. After I was caught, my captor and I went to investigate the scene but later dissevered that the pilot was dead. Natives from a nearby village began to assemble around the wreckage site. A person who I decided was en-charge, stood on one side of the dead pilot, while I stood on the other side. He began to point a large handgun in my face while shooting in his native language. I thought I had seen the end of my life but I did survive.

My Message to Future Generations:

Post Military Occupation

  • Age when captured: 23
  • Date of Captured: 01/14/45
  • Place captured: BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Camp/s held: STALAG 7A AND 13D
  • Date Released:
  • Prisoner-of-war status: Liberated
  • Date of DEATH if deceased: 
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  • Died In Combat:
  • Died from complications of combat wounds:
  • Describe below Survivors Include: