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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Mosquito
Minor damage - Landing accident - RAF Langford Lodge, Ireland, 6/8/44 - 2nd Lt James E Matuska (pilot). Struck Off Charge 28/8/44.
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8th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
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James Matuska
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 96th Bomb Group
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Watton
Military site : airfield
Built in 1939 as a medium bomber station with a grass airfield, Watton was occupied by the RAF until handed over to the Eighth Air Force in mid-1943. Improved initially with a single steel mat runway in 1943, plus 41 loop and 12 pan hardstandings, a...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Manufactured | Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK | 24 March 1944 |
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Hatfield Built, contract number 555/C.23(a), between 24-3-1944 and 31-12-1944. |
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| Crashed | Lough Neagh, Co. Northern Ireland, United Kingdom | 6 August 1944 |
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Minor damage - Landing accident - RAF Langford Lodge, Ireland - 2nd Lt James E Matuska (pilot). |
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| Struck Off Charge | 28 August 1944 | |
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Struck Off Charge 28/08/1944. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 26 November 2018 16:45:49 | Emily | Changes to markings |
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Moved information added by user Wattonman from biography to source message. Accident recovery photo appears on page 93, Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) IN WWII", Schiffer Publishers, 2011. It |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 23 November 2018 01:17:09 | Wattonman | Changes to markings |
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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" , Schiffer Publishers, 2011, page 93 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 19 June 2015 12:50:20 | Al_Skiff | Changes to description |
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Production list / mossie.org / http://aviation-safety.net |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 30 December 2014 12:12:53 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with serial number, aircraft type, production block number, manufacturer, events, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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Production list / mossie.org / http://aviation-safety.net |
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