Date of birth:

May 8th, 1920 (Chelsea/Massachusetts, United States)

Date of death:

February 25th, 1943 (Ardleigh/Essex, Great Britain)

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Graves Norwich Cemetery
Plot: Jewis. Grave: 235.

Service number:

R-126444

Nationality:

American

Irving Sanitsky, an American air gunner, enlisted on October 1st, 1941 in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
On February 25th, 1943 Halifax DT800 encountered severe weather, crashed and caught fire at Badliss Hall Farm near Ardleigh, 4 miles NE of Colchester, Essex. Sanitsky - and his six other crew members - was killed when the bomber crashed
Sanitsky was credited with the destruction of five German aircraft.

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