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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42-67998
P-38 Lightning
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From another angle of 42-67998 “Li’l One” MC-Qbar. 8th May 1944, Landing accident RAF Wittering. Pilot was Lt. Benjamin F McCarty. Aircraft had Cat. AC battle damage from the mission.
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P-38J 42-67998 “Li’l One” MC-Qbar. 8th May 1944, Landing accident RAF Wittering. Pilot was Lt. Benjamin F McCarty. Aircraft had Cat. AC battle damage from the mission.
Landing accident RAF Wittering. P-38J 42-67998 “Li’l One”. 8th May 1944, aircraft had Cat AC battle damage from the mission.
Service
Units
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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... -
79th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
People
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Benjamin McCarty
Military | Second Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 20th Fighter Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Nancy on 9 May 1944 in P-38J #42-104289. MACR 4688. AM w/ Oak Leaf Cluster, PH, POW -
Woodrow Williams
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot | 20th Fighter Group
Injured on combat mission on 27 Jul 1944 AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster, DFC
Missions
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8th Air Force Field Order 331
8 May 1944
Places
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Kings Cliffe
Military site : airfield
Kings Cliffe began as a satellite air base for the Group based at nearby Wittering. The 56th Fighter Group, however, were all based at Kings Cliffe and it was here that the pilots trained in P-47 Thunderbolts and flew their first missions in the... -
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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| Crashed | Wittering, Peterborough, Peterborough PE8, UK | 8 May 1944 |
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Landing accident RAF Wittering. 8th May 1944, Cat AC battle damage from the mission. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 28 December 2015 14:15:51 | Al_Skiff | Changes to nicknames, description, events, unit associations, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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AAM DB Entry. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 28 December 2015 10:29:21 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with serial number, aircraft type, production block number and manufacturer |
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AAM DB Entry. |
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