Art Amborski
| Date and Place of Birth: | circa. 1924 Buffalo, NY |
| Date and Place of Death: | June 26, 1944 Austria |
| Baseball Experience: | Amateur |
| Position: | Second Base |
| Rank: | Sergeant |
| Military Unit: | 742nd Bomb Squadron, 455th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force USAAF |
| Area Served: | Mediterranean Theater of Operations |
Arthur E. “Art” Amborski was born in Buffalo, New York. He was the
only son of Edward and Cecelia Amborski. Their eldest son Herbert, had
died in infancy and their middle child, Dorothy was pre-school age when
she succumbed to diphtheria. Art attended Burgard Vocational High School
and was a four-letter athlete, making the Buffalo Courier-Express
All-High teams in baseball and basketball, and winning the Typothetae
Watch as the outstanding member of the class of 1943.
Amborski went on to play second base for the Newsboys Association in the
Municipal Baseball League after high school, but was inducted into
military service in September 1943.
A sergeant with the Army Air Force, Amborski served as a radio
operator/ball turret gunner on a Consolidated B-24J
Liberator with the 742nd Bomb Squadron of the 455th Bomb Group, 15th Air
Force, making long range strategic bombing missions against enemy
military, industrial and transportation targets in Italy, France,
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. On June 26, 1944,
Sgt. Amborski was aboard B-24J
"Rusty Dusty" (#42-99771) that departed from
742nd’s airfield at San Giovanni near Cerignola, Italy, to bomb an oil
refinery at Moosbierbaum in
Austria. The B-24 failed to return to San Giovanni and Sgt. Amborski and
its crew were reported missing. It was not until April 1945, that news
was finally received that Sgt. Amborski had been killed when the B-24
was shot down by German fighters and crashed near
Neuaigen, Austria. His body was recovered at the crash site and
buried in the cemetery at Tulln, Austria before being relocated to
the Ardennes American Cemetery in Liege, Belgium in 1947.
Arthur Amborski was awarded the Air Medal and
Purple Heart.
Arthur Amborski's grave at the Ardennes American Cemetery in Liege, Belgium.
Sources:
Buffalo Courier-Express, October 28, 1941
Buffalo Courier-Express, June 20, 1943
Buffalo Courier-Express, April 12, 1945
http://www.findagrave.com
http://ampoleagle.com/remembering-the-families-sacrifice-p4895-97.htm
http://forum.armyairforces.com/455th742nd-Cherignola-Italy-m48596.aspx
Date Added: January 9, 2014
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