Dasso Brothers

Carl H. Dasso                                       

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Plot O - Row 9 - Grave 3
535th Bomber Squadron, 381st Bomber Group, HeavyHeavy

Twenty-six-year-old Carl, also a pilot and the oldest of nine Dasso children, had been shot down during a raid over Berlin less than a year earlier.

Eugene E. Dasso

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Plot O - Row 9 - Grave 2
337th Bomber Squadron, 96th Bomber Group, Heavy

The young pilot knew the plane was going down, so he ordered those passengers
who could to bail out. The 23-year-old Rock Island airman refused to abandon the crippled craft himself, hoping desperately he could somehow save the plane and its cargo of wounded soldiers. He struggled at the controls, but, within minutes, the airplane smashed into a ditch in Madgeburg, France, and burst into flames.

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