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42-106459

P-51 Mustang

  • A P-51 Mustang (PE-Z, serial number 42-106459) nicknamed

    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

    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.'

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Service

Units

  • 8th Air Force

    8th Air Force

    Command

  • 352nd Fighter Group

    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

    328th Fighter Squadron

    Squadron

People

  • 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

  • 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
Failed to Return (FTR) Over Water (OW) North Sea 21 July 1944

Lost, FTR, pilot Lt Robert R Lampman KIA MACR 6839
Nicknames
'La Riena Peg'
Production block number
P-51B-10-NA
Manufacturer
North American
Markings and paint scheme/livery

Natural metal finish, dark blue spinner, dark blue nose. Coded PE-Z.

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
15 February 2015 14:22:18 Al_Skiff Changes to production block number, nicknames, markings, events, unit associations, person associations and place associations
Sources

Roger Freeman / http://www.littlefriends.co.uk / http://www.ww2color.com
Date Contributor Update
27 September 2014 18:40:14 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

MACR 6839 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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