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World War II Honoree

World War II Veteran

Jesse S. Hizenski

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Washington, Pennsylvania

Honored By

Jesse S. Hizenski

Relationship

Self

Branch Seal
Activity During WWII

Navigator on a B-17 assigned to the 49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group (H), 15th Air Forces and stationed in Foggia, Italy. Shot down on 12th mission, where his target was an ME-109 Assembly Plant in Steyr, Austria on February 24, 1944. He was taken as a POW and spent rest of war in Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany. Then Liberated by the Russians.