Serviceman

Michael J Bellonio

Play his story on the map built from his record

Army serial number

0692849

Rank

2d Lt (11 January 1944), 2nd Lt (12 January 1944), 2LT (14 June 1944), 2LT (6 July 1944), 2d Lt (18 July 1944), 1LT (23 September 1944)

Hometown

BUFFALO NY; Buffalo NY; Buffalo, NY

Also written

Michael Bellonio

In the book

Heroes of the 483rd, p. 21, 249

Sources

483bg-record, assoc-roster, heroes-book, morning-report · service record at 483bg.org

Crews

• Leo Cooper Brooks Crew · 840th
• Victor P. Vlahovich Crew · 840th

Missions placed on him

• mission 2, 13 April 1944 · Brod · Listed with the Victor P. Vlahovich crew, which flew it per its history (p. 249); whether he was aboard that day is not recorded
• mission 7, 23 April 1944 · Wiener Neustadt · Listed with the Leo Cooper Brooks crew, which flew it per its history (p. 21); whether he was aboard that day is not recorded
• mission 20, 19 May 1944 · Casarsa · Listed with the Leo Cooper Brooks crew, which flew it per its history (p. 21); whether he was aboard that day is not recorded
• mission 28, 2 June 1944 · Debrecen · Listed with the Leo Cooper Brooks crew, which flew it per its history (p. 21); whether he was aboard that day is not recorded
• mission 30, 11 June 1944 · Focsani · Listed with the Leo Cooper Brooks crew, which flew it per its history (p. 21); whether he was aboard that day is not recorded
• mission 35, 23 June 1944 · Ploesti · The Victor P. Vlahovich crew's history names Ploesti: one of 2 missions there in its time (p. 249)
• mission 48, 9 July 1944 · Ploesti · The Victor P. Vlahovich crew's history names Ploesti: one of 2 missions there in its time (p. 249)
• mission 50, 15 July 1944 · Ploesti · Listed with the Leo Cooper Brooks crew, which flew it per its history (p. 21); whether he was aboard that day is not recorded
• mission 51, 18 July 1944 · Memmingen · Listed with the Leo Cooper Brooks crew, which flew it per its history (p. 21); whether he was aboard that day is not recorded
• mission 55, 25 July 1944 · Linz · Listed with the Leo Cooper Brooks crew, which flew it per its history (p. 21); whether he was aboard that day is not recorded
• mission 57, 27 July 1944 · Budapest, Csepel · Listed with the Leo Cooper Brooks crew, which flew it per its history (p. 21); whether he was aboard that day is not recorded
• mission 60, 31 July 1944 · Ploesti · Listed with the Leo Cooper Brooks crew, which flew it per its history (p. 21); whether he was aboard that day is not recorded
• mission 109, 16 October 1944 · Pilsen · The Leo Cooper Brooks crew's history names Pilsen: one of 2 missions there in its time (p. 21)
• mission 112, 23 October 1944 · Pilsen · The Leo Cooper Brooks crew's history names Pilsen: one of 2 missions there in its time (p. 21)
• mission 132, 30 November 1944 · Linz · Listed with the Leo Cooper Brooks crew, which flew it per its history (p. 21); whether he was aboard that day is not recorded

A report lists him aboard, or his crew's history in Heroes of the 483rd dates the mission; the book is cited by page and not reproduced. The rest of his squadron's missions in his window are not placed on him by any document.

Awards

From the general orders indexed by the Army Air Corps Library and Museum.

Morning reports

6 entries, first 11 January 1944, last 20 July 1944; grades seen: 2d Lt, 2nd Lt. The clerk's sentence is quoted as the machine read it from microfilm: "fr dy to DS" is from duty to detached service, "sk in hosp" sick in hospital, "asgd & jd" assigned and joined.

• 1944-01-11 817th: Dy to Hosp
• 1944-01-12 HQ: Hosp to dy OFFICER FLD o & CAPT IST LT
• 1944-01-12 HQ: 1091 Deleamp 2
• 1944-01-12 HQ: Hosp to dy OFFICER FLD o & CAPY IST LT
• 1944-07-18 840th: 2d It
• 1944-07-20 840th: 2d It

National Archives pages: roll 461010974 p. 874, roll 461010974 p. 877, roll 461012976 p. 741, roll 481433713 p. 503, roll 481433713 p. 508

Photographs naming him

• B-17 42-102429 · view at 15thaf.org
• UPL 40226 1Lt Michael J Bellonio, Co-pilot on B17G 42-102429, 483rd Bomber Group... Michael was "Killed In Action" over the Ploesti Oil Complex, Romania during the war when his B17 was shot down by enemy flak. · view at American Air Museum in Britain

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