9th Air Force
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P-38 Lightning
On Strafing run at La Roche, Belgium, hit by flak as A/C leveled off, bursting into flames. A/C climbed 2-300ft before diving into ground and exploding on impact. Pilot 1st Lt Bobbie R Rankin KIA. MACR 11900.
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Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 474th Fighter Group
Pilot P-38. Assigned to 428th Fighter Squadron, 474th Fighter Group, 9th AF. On Strafing run at La Roche, Belgium, hit by flak as A/C leveled off, bursting into flames. A/C climbed 2-300ft before diving into ground and exploding on impact. KIA. MACR...
Military | Colonel | Fighter Group Commander; Pilot | 479th Fighter Group
17 air victories with 56th FG flying P-47s, 2 1/2 with 479th FG flying P-51s. Lost 30 October 1944 when P-51 broke up in storm. Prisoner of War (POW) in Stalag Luft I. Was appointed as head of American Prisoner of War (POW)s while in camp. Retired from...
Military site : airfield
Originally named Woodsford, the station opened as a grass airfield Armament Practice Camp in 1937. Subject to a change of name in 1938, to avoid confusion with the Avro factory airfield of Woodford, RAF Warmwell was used as a training, fighter and ASR...
Event | Location | Date |
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Assigned | Warmwell, Dorchester, Dorset DT2, UK | March 1944 |
428th Fighter Squadron, 474th Fighter Group, 9AF USAAF. |
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Crashed | 1490 La Roche, Belgium | 25 December 1944 – 25 December 1944 |
On Strafing run at La Roche, Belgium, hit by flak as A/C leveled off, bursting into flames. A/C climbed 2-300ft before diving into ground and exploding on impact. Pilot 1st Lt Bobbie R Rankin KIA. MACR 11900. |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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07 January 2016 11:13:23 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, description, events, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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AAM DB Entry. |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:41:20 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 11900 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |