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-47 Thunderbolt
Assigned to 82FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. Personal aircraft of Major Robert E Eby. Re-assigned to Lt Rex C Boeckman.
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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Group
The 78th Fighter Group was initially based at Goxhill but moved to Duxford in April 1943 and stayed there until October 1945. The 78th FG flew each of the three US built principal fighters of the AAF in the ETO. In their Thundetbolts, the 78th FG ...
Squadron
Military | Captain | Fighter pilot
Assigned to 82FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. Completed Tour of Duty (ETD).
Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Fighter Pilot
Bob Eby served as a pilot with the 78th Fighter Group, flying missions out of Duxford, England.
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Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot
6 June 1944
D-Day. Start of Operation Overlord.
6 June 1944
D-Day. Start of Operation Overlord.
Military site : airfield
RAF Duxford, now a museum and still a working airfield, was operated by the USAAF from 1943 to 1945. The base was briefly the home of the 350th Fighter Group in late 1942, but it was not until April 1943 that it became a fully American station when the...
Event | Location | Date |
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Manufactured | Farmingdale, NY 11735, USA | 1944 |
Built at Republic. |
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Delivered | New York, NY, USA | 1944 |
Delivered to USAAF. |
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Assigned | Duxford, Cambridge CB22, UK | 1944 |
Assigned to 82FS, 78FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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01 December 2016 10:45:21 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with serial number, aircraft type, production block number, manufacturer, nicknames, markings, description, events, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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