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Last Name: ` MANFREDINI	First Name Middle Initial: MARIO		Nick Name: 'MANNY'
Street: 4432 E SAN MIGUEL	City & State: COLORADO SPRINGS, CO		E-Mail:
Zip: 80915	Phone: 719 597 6764		Spouse: HELEN R DECEASED 03-16-99
Conflict: WW II	Service Branch: Army Air Corp		Unit: 568 BS 390 BG 8 AF
Theater: ETO	Where Captured: BERLIN, GERMANY		Date Captured: 01/14/45
Camps Held In: STALAG 7A AND 13D			How Long Interned: 105 days
liberated / repatriated: liberated	Date Liberated: 04/29/45		Age at Capture: 23
Medals Received: AIR MEDAL W/3 CLUSTERS, PRISONER OF WAR MEDAL, GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL
Military Job: ENGINEER, TOP TURRENT GUNNER		Company: United States
Occupation after War: AIR FORCE

Military Bio:

TRYING TIMES
When I was ordered to bail out of the front escape hatch, our co-pilot was directly behind me, but he did make it out. His body was later found near the aircraft's wreckage site.

When I landed, I noticed a German pilot's chute nearby. After I was caught, my captor and I went to investigate the scene but later dissevered that the pilot was dead. Natives from a nearby village began to assemble around the wreckage site. A person who I decided was en-charge, stood on one side of the dead pilot, while I stood on the other side. He began to point a large handgun in my face while shooting in his native language. I thought I had seen the end of my life but I did survive.