CRASH SITE OF B-25 A/C No. 42-32466 Ellis A Ruppelt
 

We find in Pratola Serra the place where 27 august 1943 crashed B-25 A/C No. 42-32466 (MACR-638). The crew:

Ruppelt, Ellis A., 2Lt - MIA, RTD
DeLouche, Remi T., Jr., 2Lt - POW, RMC
Snyder, Nathan B., S/Sgt - MIA, POW, DNB
Grimm, James R., S/Sgt - MIA, RMC
Joseph, Edward Thomas, Sgt - POW, RMC

Some info about these men? I just find:

Interrogation Report: Ruppelt, Ellis A., 2Lt, pilot, 379th BS
Base Intelligence Office
MOODY FIELD, GEORGIA
Date ___19 October 1945___
REPORT OF INTERROGATION OF FORMER POW FOR CASUALTY INFORMATION
Casualty: NATHAN B. SNYDER, S/Sgt, bombardier
Circumstances of loss of aircraft: While on a bombing mission, German fighter aircraft attacked and set both engines and left wing of our B-25 aircraft afire. All five of us crew members escaped by parachute from our burning aircraft over Benevento, Italy.
Hearsay Information: An Italian priest, John Giordano, living at Pratola Serra (Province of Avellino), Italy, wrote me a letter stating that S/Sgt NATHAN B. SNYDER had been shot and killed by the Germans.
Sgt. Grimm, radio operator, and 2nd Lt. R.T. DeLouche, co-pilot, have returned to the United States. Neither one of those crew members has information concerning S/Sgt NATHAN B. SNYDER or Edward Josephs, gunner, the remaining member of our crew.
(S) ELLIS A. RUPPELT, 0-732580
1st Lt., Air Corps, Moody Field, Georgia

Some of fragments we find

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Re: CRASH SITE OF B-25 A/C No. 42-32466 Ellis A Ruppelt
 

Hi Salerno1943,

42-32466 was one of three lost, here's the info I have in my database:

379th BS, 310th BG. Includes B-25C-1 41-13076 "Phyllis Girl", 10 miles NW of Benevento, crew of Kenneth M Johnson 3 KIA, 1 POW and 2 evaded; B025C-15s 42-32414, Jesse L Carpenter and crew all KIA and 42-32466, crew of Ellis A Ruppelt 2 POW and 3 evaded.

Shot down by 8/JG 53 pilots Fw. Heinz Polak, Uffz. Karl Knichel and Uffz. Friedrich Scheer.