The 483rd Bomb Group Archive

Serviceman

Joseph F. Condraski

840thpilot

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Army serial number
O-813360
Hometown
Turner Falls, MA
In the book
Heroes of the 483rd, p. 44
Sources
heroes-book, macr-crew
Flags. another record shares the name Condraski, Joseph F. (units HQ, 840th, serials None, O-813360); may be the same man

Crews

Aboard a lost aircraft

Photographs naming him

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Statements, mentions and histories

Eyewitness statement, page 6 · 13 September 1944
CONFIDENTIAL
84OTH BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON (H)
483RD BOMBARDMENT GROUP (H)
Office of the Operations Officer
APC 520
13 September 1944
STATEMENT OF WITNESS
11
Airplane Number 44-6349, piloted by 2nd Lt. Condraski, dropped out
of #3 position and dropped 2 bombs approximately five minutes before
the I.P. Lt. Condraski's ship followed the group to the target, area
and skirted the flak. I observed no engine trouble with the exception
of an oil leak: on the bettom of #3 engine, but it was not excessive,
only noticeable. He couldn't keep up with the formation after dropping
bombs and continued to drop back farther until he went around the flak.
I saw a ship after we left the target. area, that may have been 349, which
was the last I saw of the ship.
Donald 11. Ellist
DONALD H. ELLIOTT , T/Sgt.
Airplane 4/-0018
#4
CODEDENTIAL

National Archives, MACR 8448, page 6 · Machine-read from microfilm, uncorrected.

German capture report, page 9 · 13 September 1944
DATE AND TIFE ATRCRAP2 13 September 1944 at 1115
VAS STICT DORE
CASUALTY NO.
ME 2129
near Heydebreck o/s
PLACE OF CRASA
TYPE OF AIRCRAFT
PEPORTING OFF/CE
Air District VIII
CAPT'D
SERIAL
WOUNDED
NAME
RANK
DEAD
FLACE OF INTERNE ENT
SCHWARZ
Elden Frank
8/Sgt - 36765008
captured
Dulag Luft
15 March
Dubuque, Ia
CONDRASKI,
Joseph F.
2nd &t. 0-813360
dead
cemetery Heydebreck
on 13 September 1944
Dulag Luft 30 September 1944

National Archives, MACR 8448, page 9 · Machine-read from microfilm, uncorrected.

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