The seventy immortal lives of June 26, 1959
Ten flags for the seventy immortal lives and
the sixteen Countries of the world struck by the disaster
Every year on June 26 in Olgiate Olona ten flags commemorate the nationality of the seventy immortal lives and represent the Countries of the world that were more or less directly struck by the disaster. Eight flags correspond to those of eight nationalities of the immortal lives: United States of America (37 passengers, considering the unborn creature), Italy (16), France (7), United Kingdom (4), Chile (3), Germany (1), Israel (1), Egypt (1). The other two flags - those of the European Union and of the United Nations - symbolize eight other Countries struck by the disaster of June 26, 1959 because of the birthplaces of some of the seventy victims: Greece, Spain, Romania, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia in 1959), Algeria, Sudan. Thus, the Countries involved in the plane crash of Olgiate Olona are sixteen in total. More specifically, among the U.S. victims eight were born in Italy, two in Greece, one in Spain, one in Czechoslovakia and one in Russia; among the French victims, two were born in Algeria, one in Egypt, one in Poland; one of the Italian victims was born in Egypt; the Israeli victim was born in Romania; the Egyptian victim was born in Sudan.
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crew members
Paul Sidney Grade, age 50
U.S., Captain
Jack Davis, age 39
U.S., Captain (ACM)
Frank William Ellis, age 29
U.S., First Officer
Harry Louis Stanton, age 43
U.S., Relief Pilot
John Victor Powell, age 39
U.S., Flight Engineer
Donald Albert Lueke, age 41
U.S., Flight Engineer
Edmond Mouchnino, age 38
French, Purser
Marguerite Fay, age 27
French, Hostess
Jacqueline Jaussen, age 23
French, Hostess
British passengers
George Ellis, age 48
Marguerite Cambet Ellis, age 51
Percy Charles Nicholls, age 44
Albert John Palmer, age 42
U.S. passengers
Govie Bebee Allbritton, age 38
Leonardo Armanetti, age 53
Mary Belknap, age 10
Augusta Benedetti, age 69
Jacob Binder, age 57
Anna Maga, age 64
William Edwin Buckley, age 53
Rizieri Celli, age 42
Georgia Chioles, age 67
Jesus Juan Rey, age 63
Anna Rey, age 55
Manuel Rey, age 31
Josephine Fuda, age 65
Domenick Fuda, age 15
Katherine Germo, age 71
Mary Germo, age 46
Olivia Kammerer, age 66
Syd Kaye, age 59
Anna Korecky, age 69
Lillian Sternes, age 48
Frank Charles Sternes, age 51
Chester Linsky, age 34
Basilio Lombardi, age 61
Michael A. Martino, age 29
Corinne Martino, age 30
Sophie Doumouras, age 23
Antonio Salbego, age 68
Hugo Sei, age 45
George S. Sherman, age 43
Mary Thompson, age 22
Italian passengers
Achille Belloni, age 30
Franco Cavallanti, age 30
Gabriele Cavallanti, age 20
Paolo Ciserani, age 32
Marfisa Bertolucci Celli, age 24
Pietro Castelnovo, age 30
Raffaele Cohen, age 28
Maria Fermi Sacchetti, age 60
Ferrando Fratelli, age 61
Gian Pietro Giordana, age 46
Pasquale Graffeo, age 64
Eleonora Kraft Fantoni Sellon, age 48
Francesca Pellecchia Mariani, age 61
Valerio Reggiani, age 29
Emilio Sarchi, age 34
Natalina Suardi Sarchi, age 29
French passengers
Farid Geargeoura, age 47
Jacques Rock, age 32
Ernest Rotter, age 51
Jeann Renée Rousseau, age 23
