8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 55FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) escort mission to Berlin, after strafing Esbjerg aerodrome, A/C hit in cockpit area by flak and machine gunfire from ground
crashed near Esbjerg on 27-Aug-44. Pilot 1st Lt Harry M Anderson Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 8302.
Service
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20th Fighter Group
Group
In August 1943, the 20th Fighter Group arrived in Clyde, Scotland, before travelling to Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire, which was to be their base for the rest of the war. The Group flew 312 missions before their last mission on 25 April 1945. The... -
55th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
People
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Harry Anderson
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 20th Fighter Group
Assigned to 55FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. Credited 1 x Ju88 destroyed. Failed to Return (FTR) escort mission to Berlin, after strafing Esbjerg aerodrome, A/C P-51D 44-13733 hit in cockpit area by flak and machine gunfire from ground, crashed near Esbjerg on...
Places
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Wittering
Military site : airfield
Wittering, now in Cambridgeshire, began as RFC Stamford in 1916. By the end of the First World War, it had been renamed RAF Wittering, and was used by both British and American aircraft. It had six hangars, fifteen aircraft sheds and many other...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Manufactured | Inglewood, CA, USA | 1944 |
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Built at North American Aviation. |
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| Delivered | California, USA | 1944 |
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Deliverd to USAAF. |
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| Assigned | Wittering, Peterborough PE8, UK | 1944 |
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Assigned to 55FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Crashed | Esbjerg, Denmark | 27 August 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) escort mission to Berlin, after strafing Esbjaerg aerodrome, A/C hit in cockpit area by flak and machine gunfire from ground |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 15 July 2016 20:29:19 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, markings, description, events, unit associations and place associations |
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http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=44-13733&Submit=S... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:41:43 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 8302 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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