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  1. Jun 5, 2024 · Biden, 81, was a toddler at the time of his uncle’s death. He recently made his first visit to a World War II memorial in Scranton, and traced the inscription of Ambrose Finnegan’s name with ...

  2. 2d Lt AMBROSE J FINNEGAN - Service Member Profile. Conflict. Service. Status. WORLD WAR II. UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES. Unaccounted For. On May 14, 1944, an A-20 havoc (serial number 42-86768), with a crew of three and one passenger, departed Momote Airfield, Los Negros Island, for a courier flight to Nadzab Airfield, New Guinea.

  3. Apr 18, 2024 · President Joe Biden reaches to touch the name of his uncle Ambrose J. Finnegan, Jr., on a wall at a Scranton war memorial, Wednesday, April 17, 2024, in Scranton, Pa.

  4. Jun 5, 2024 · 3 of 3 | . Copies of draft registration cards for John, Edward and Gerard Finnegan are photographed, June 5, 2024. After the United States was pulled into World War II by Japan’s surprise deadly bombing campaign at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Finnegan and his three brothers, Ambrose, Edward and Gerard, uncles of President Joe Biden, were among the tens of thousands of young Americans who felt the ...

  5. Jun 5, 2024 · The personnel files for tens of thousands of U.S. service members who served in the Army during World War II were destroyed in a warehouse fire in the 1970s and little could be learned about Gerard Finnegan's service beyond the president's reference in his memoir to that uncle. Ambrose Finnegan perished in the war just weeks before D-Day.

  6. Apr 18, 2024 · While in Pittsburgh, Biden spoke about his uncle, 2nd Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr., aiming to draw a contrast with reports that Trump, while president, had called fallen service members “suckers” and “losers.” Finnegan, the brother of Biden’s mother, “got shot down in New Guinea,” Biden said.

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  8. U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF), 5th Air Force (5th AF), Headquarters Squadron. Missing In Action (MIA) off New Guinea. Background. Ambrose J. Finnegan, Jr. was born August 8, 1914 to parents Mr. Ambrose J. Finnegan and Mrs. Geraldine (née Blewitt) Finnegan. The Finnegan family lived at 2446 North Washington Avenue in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

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