Kolakoski, Roman Stanley, 2nd Lt

Fallen

Service Photo

Service Details

Last Rank
Second Lieutenant

Last Primary AFSC/MOS
AAF MOS 1055-Pilot, Single-Engine Fighter

Last AFSC Group
Pilot (Officer)

Primary Unit
1943-1944, Far East Air Forces

Service Years
1942 - 1944

Last Photo

Personal Details

Home State

Virginia

Year of Birth
1920

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Casualty Info

Home Town Hopewell, VA	Last Address Southwest Pacific
Casualty Date Aug 22, 1944
Cause MIA-Finding of Death	Reason Other Cause
Location Philippines

Official Badges

Unofficial Badges

Military Associations and Other Affiliations


	2018, World War II Fallen

Ribbon Bar

Unit Assignments


	1943-1944, Far East Air Forces

Combat and Non-Combat Operations


	1944-1944 WWII - Pacific Theater of Operations/Air Offensive Campaign Japan (1942-45)

My Aircraft/Missiles


	1943-1944, P-47 Thunderbolt (Jug)

Additional Information

Last Known Activity:

MIA 22 Aug 1944 while on a cross-country flight over Papua, New Guinea. Flight in radio silence and bad weather executed a destination change involving a 180 degree turn. Buster's plane, according to Donald Bridgford the Flight Leader, was missing when the Flight pulled out of the clouds . Land-Sea Rescue 'notified' after flight landed in Lae and searched on August 23 but no ship was found.

Comments/Citation:

Current Photo is, of course, not current. Taken in 1943 between flight school and the Phillipines.