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Gentile, Dominic Salvatore "Don"

Date of birth:
December 6th, 1920
Date of death:
January 28th, 1951
Nationality:
American

Biography

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Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Unit:
336th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, U.S. Army Air Forces

Received as an Oak Leaf Cluster for on the ribbon on the first DSC.
Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)
Period:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Unit:
No. 133 (Eagle) Squadron, Royal Air Force
Received for shooting down a Focke Wulf Fw 190 and a Junkers Ju 88 over France on 1st August 1942.
Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)

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