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| UNIT:
96th Bomb Group, 9 Army Air Corps |
| RANK:
2nd Lieutenant |
| BORN:
December 25, 1922 |
| WHERE:
Collinsville, Madison Co., IL |
| DIED:
January 29, 1945 |
| WHERE:
Norwich, England |
| CAUSE
OF DEATH: Killed in Action over
Norwich, England |
| BURIED:
St. John Cemetery - Collinsville,
IL |
| MARKER:
Private Headstone |
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| Second Lieutenant
George J. Peretti, twenty-two years old, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peretti, 404 East Wickliffe
Avenue, was reported officially killed in action
January 29, somewhere in England. It was revealed
in a telegram received by his father from the War
Department Monday. Lt. Peretti, a pilot on a B-17
Flying Fortress in the Eighth Air Force stationed
somewhere in England entered the service in
February, 1943, and received his training at Camp
Fresno, California. He was sent overseas the
early part of this year to a base in England.
Lt. Peretti was
born in Hiteman, Iowa on December 25, 1922, and
moved with his family to Benld as a boy. He
attended grade school at Benld, and in 1937, the
family moved to Collinsville, where he graduated
from the Collinsville Township High School.
Prior to his
induction into the service Lt. Peretti was
employed as a machinist at the Curtiss Wright
Corporation of St. Louis.
Peretti received
his pilot’s wings in April 1944, at the Army
Air Force station at Pecos, Texas, just recently,
the young pilot was awarded the Air Medal for
meritorious “achievement” while serving
as a pilot on a B-17 Flying Fortress in the
Eighth Air Force in bombing attacks on
Germany’s military industrial targets. The
presentation was made by Colonel Robert W.
Warren, of Vernon, Texas, 96th Bomb Squadron
Group Commander, Lt. Peretti is survived by his
parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peretti.
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Lt. George
Peretti
