OBIT: Albert A. FEBBO, 1945, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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Albert A. Febbo

  T/Sgt. Albert A. Febbo, aged 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher 
Febbo of 1604 Fifth avenue, was killed in action in the crash of a 
plane in China on April 2.  In a letter written March 24, he reported 
that he had completed thirty-three missions and expected to start home 
after completing four more.
  First word of his death was received in a war department telegram to 
his parents received April 14, but this morning a letter, giving 
details of his demise, was received at the home from Maj. Gen., C. L. 
Chennault, commander of his group of the American Air Force.
  The letter reported that Sgt. Febbo was serving as radio operator and 
gunner of a plane engaged in an important mission.  He was killed when 
the plane made a crash landing ten miles east of Yankai, China, his 
death apparently having been instant and without pain.
  The body has been interred in an American military cemetery at 
Kunming, China, with full military honors.  In concluding the letter 
Gen. Chennault wrote "Your boy was a fine type young American soldier, 
respected for his military qualities and also admired for his splendid 
personal traits, loyalty and conscientiousness, a radio-gunner of 
exceptional skill.  He was awarded the Air Medal in recognition of his 
achievements in aerial flight."
  Sgt. Febbo had never written his family of receiving the Air Medal.  
The family last heard from him in a letter written on March 31, and 
received an hour before the telegram announcing his death.  Sgt. Febbo 
had been overseas for the past year.
  He entered the Air Force on Feb. 29, 1942, training at Clearwater, 
graduated as a radio operator and received his wings and at Las Vegas, 
Nev., where he trained in gunnery.
  Sgt. Febbo was born in Altoona on Jan. 9, 1923, a son of Christopher 
and Mary (D'Ercole) Febbo, and was graduated from Altoona High School 
when he was 17 years old, in the class of 1940.  Prior to entering the 
service he was employed at the Cuzzolina barber shop, at the Glenn L. 
Martin plant in Baltimore, Md., and at the time he entered the service 
at the Eaton plant in Cleveland, O.
  Surviving are his parents, and the following brothers and sisters, 
Anna, at home, Nellie and Mrs. Josephine Santorelli, in Cleveland, O., 
Mrs. Elvira Pullano, Mrs. Elizabeth Herman and Tony, at the home, and 
William of Cleveland, O.
  Sgt. Febbo was a member of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church. 

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., April 23, 1945

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