OSS DeFlumeri, Alfred Louis

John Robertson

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Staff member
  • SURNAME
DeFlumeri
  • FORENAME
Alfred Louis
  • UNIT
U.S.Army (Inf) OSS 2677 Special Reconnaissance Regiment (Company D)
  • RANK
Sergeant
  • NUMBER
31252071
  • DATE OF DEATH
26th March 1944
  • AGE
32
  • GRAVESITE
Florence American Cemetery, Italy Plot G Row 11 Grave 15
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
born 26.5.1911 Natick, Massachusetts
son of Patrick Nicolas and Angela Maria (nee Pellegrino) De Flumeri
husband of Ida (nee Lodi) De Flumeri,1 Harrison Street, Natick, Massachusetts (4 children)
3 years high school
laborer/bulldozer operator in civilian life
entered service 24.11.1942 Hartford, Connecticut
Mission Ginny II
award Silver Star
POW 24.3.1944
executed Punta Bianca 26.3.1944 (date different from ABMC)
OSS Memorial, CIA HQ, McLean, Virginia
"Alfred L." (National Archives and ABMC)
according to his son Nicholas from Hartford, Connecticut
true first names "Alfred Christie" (executed 25.3.1944)
 

DATE OF DEATH:

26-Mar-1944

AWARD:

https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?threads/deflumeri-alfred-christie.36089/

CITATION:

Silver Star : The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Silver Star (Posthumously) to Sergeant Alfred L. Deflumeri (ASN: 31252071), United States Army, for gallantry in action while serving with the 2677th Company, Office of Strategic Services, in action against the enemy on the nights of 22 and 23 March 1944 in the European Theater of Operations. Technician Fifth Grade Leone was a member of an operational group consisting of two officers and 13 enlisted men, whose mission it was to land behind the enemy's lines and demolish or block an important railway tunnel. Despite the announcement by the Germans that all Allied saboteurs captured behind the lines would be executed, Technician Fifth Grade Deflumeri volunteered for this hazardous duty. To avoid detection, landing boats had returned to Corsica after putting the raiders ashore. Plans were to pick up the saboteurs the subsequent night, upon completion of the mission. Two attempts were made by pursuit torpedo boats to retrieve the party, both of them unsuccessful. Later, information was received that the party had been captured and no precise accounts were receive until 1946 when it was learned that the group had been brutally executed four days after it had landed. The soldier's graves were located and all 15 men were found buried together with their hands bound behind them. His gallant actions and dedicated devotion to duty, without regard for his own life, were in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.

WEB LINKS:

https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/103255

FINDAGRAVE:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55894863/alfred-louis-de_flumeri
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