https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40863066/joseph-v-lamoglia

19 April 1921: born in Oakland, California.

June 1939: Graduates with Class of '39 Fremont High School, California.

11 Aug 1942: Enlisted in the Army Air Corps while at Berkeley, California.

Feb 1943: Graduates with a B.S. in Agricultural Science; University of California, Berkeley and UC Davis.

May 1943: commissioned (O861203) as a Second Lieutenant in the USAAF.

After specialized training in radio detection and ranging (RADAR) at Harvard University and MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Boca Raton Field, Florida;

he was assigned to the 870th Bomber Squadron, 497th Bombardment Group (VH), 73rd Bomb Wing, XXI Bomber Command, 20th Air Force at Isely Field on Saipan in the Mariana Islands.

Deployed 7 Oct 1944 from Herington Field (KS) >>> Mather Field (CA) >>> John Rogers (Oahu) >>> Kwajalein Atoll (Marshall Islands) >>> arriving Isely Field, Saipan on 19 Oct 1944.

497th BG Radar Counter Measure Officer: O-861203Joseph Vincent LaMoglia 1Lt, Oakland, CA

1LT Joseph Vincent LaMoglia (1921-1945) - Find A Grave Memorial

During the night of 3-4 July 1945, he flew as the RADAR Counter Measure (RCM) Officer aboard Boeing B-29-50-BW Super Fortress serial #42-24774, call sign A-Square-37, nicknamed "Miss HAP" on a mission to incendiary bombard the Kochi urban area of Japan.

The aircraft and aircrew are lost when they are hit with anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) fire and crashed into a forest near the city of Kochi, Japan.

http://www.exciteableitalian.com/497/497th.htm

Joseph V la Moglia