43-6903
Assigned to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) target support mission to Berlin.
Tangling with superior numbers of enemy fighters at Wittenburg. Limping home alone with a flakey engine he caught site of an enemy bomber as he neared the Channel. Chose to attack and shoot down the He111. Now, low on fuel, he attempted to make the Spanish border but crashed just inside of occupied France. Pilot Lt Phillip Dunn POW. 3-Mar-44. MACR 3050.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 336th Fighter Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Crew Chief
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 4th Fighter Group 336th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-885417
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 4th Fighter Group 336th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: T-190626 / O-2044897
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Crashed Failed to Return (FTR) |
Southern France | 3 March 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) target support mission to Berlin. Tangling with superior numbers of enemy fighters at Wittenburg. Limping home alone with a flakey engine he caught site of an enemy bomber as he neared the Channel. Chose to attack and shoot down the He111. Now, low on fuel, he attempted to make the Spanish border but crashed just inside of occupied France. Pilot Lt Phillip Dunn POW. 3-Mar-44. MACR 3050. |
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Assigned |
Debden, UK | Assigned to 336FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Removed association with VF-Y.
VF-Y was Dunn's P-51 but it was 43-6846. On the 3rd March mission, Dunn was flying Jack Raphael's 43-6903 which was coded VF-N.
MACR 3050 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database