Dominic Salvatore Gentile
Major Dominic Salvatore Don Gentile was a World War II USAAF pilot who surpassed Eddie Rickenbackers World War I record ofdowned aircraft. He later served in the postwar U.S. Air Force.
Gentile was born in Piqua, Ohio, the son of southern Italian immigrants Patsy and Josephina Gentile, who immigrated in 1907. After a fascination with flying as a child, his father provided him with his own plane, an Aerosport Biplane. He managed to log over 300 hours flying time by July 1941, when he attempted to join the Army Air Forces.
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