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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42-106459
P-51 Mustang
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A P-51 Mustang (PE-Z, serial number 42-106459) nicknamed " La Riena Peg " of the 352nd Fighter Group at Bodney, April 1944. Written on slide casing: '4/44 Bodney, Lt Col E Clark. PE-Z, 42106459 La Riena Peg.'
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Lieutenant Colonel Eugene "Pop" Clark of the 352nd Fighter Group in the cockpit of his P-51 Mustang (PE-Z, serial number 42-106459) nicknamed " La Riena Peg " Bodney, April 1944. Written on slide casing: '4/44 Bodney, Lt Col E Clark. PE-Z, 42106459 La Riena Peg.'
Service
Units
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352nd Fighter Group
Group
The 352nd Fighter Group were based at Bodney, Norfolk from July 1943 until November 1945 but in the winter months of 1944/1945 detachments moved to bases in Belgium to provide extra air support to ground forces during the Battle of the Bulge and to... -
328th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
People
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Eugene Clark
Military | Colonel | Pilot, Deputy Commanding Officer | 352nd Fighter Group
Lieutenant Colonel 'Pop' Clark served as a pilot with the 352nd Fighter Group. ... -
Robert Lampman
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 352nd Fighter Group
Robert R Lampman served as a pilot with the 352nd Fighter Group. He started flying with the Group in June 1944 and was lost just a month later. Returning from a mission to Munich, he aircraft ran out of fuel over the North Sea and wasn't seen again. -
Garland Rayborn
Military | Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot, Pilot | 352nd Fighter Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Weissenbasel on 11 Sep 44 in P-51 'La Riena Peg II' #4413785
Places
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Bodney
Military site : airfield
Before the Americans arrived Bodney was a grass-surfaced airfield. So when the 352nd Fighter Group arrived with heavy P-47 Thunderbolts, work was carried out to strengthen its roads and runways with steel matting, concrete and tarmac. Nissen huts also...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Failed to Return (FTR) Over Water (OW) | North Sea | 21 July 1944 |
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Lost, FTR, pilot Lt Robert R Lampman KIA MACR 6839 |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 15 February 2015 14:22:18 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, nicknames, markings, events, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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Roger Freeman / http://www.littlefriends.co.uk / http://www.ww2color.com |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:14 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 6839 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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