POW’s reunited 62 years after being shot down
Published: August 6, 2005
The last time Daniel Sirianni saw Roland Martin, he had just jumped out of the warplane Martin was flying.
The two men were members of the ten-man crew aboard an American B-17 making a bombing run over a German manufacturing city in October 1943. Anti-aircraft fire knocked out two of the plane’s engines, so Sirianni and five other crewmen bailed out.
Martin and three others stayed with the plane and survived a crash-landing in a field. All ten crewmen were taken prisoner and sent to different POW camps.
This week, Sirianni and Martin were reunited for the first time in more than 60 years. Martin flew in from Carmel, California and spent a few days in western New York with Sirianni, a retired school superintendent.
Joining them was a German journalist who helped research the fate of their bomber and helped locate surviving crew members.
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