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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42-26417
P-47 Thunderbolt
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Colonel Lucian Dade and a ground crewman of the 62nd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group with P-47 Thunderbolt (LM-P, serial number 42-26417) nicknamed 'Carpatho-Russian Defender', 1944
Presentation aircraft
Assigned to 62FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF.
Service
Units
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56th Fighter Group
Group
Flying P-47 Thunderbolts throughout their time stationed in England, the Group, known as "the Wolfpack", had more ace pilots than any other Eighth Air Force Fighter Group. The 56th Fighter Group also destroyed more enemy aircraft in air combat than any... -
62nd Fighter Squadron
Squadron
People
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Pete Cherednik
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter pilot | 355th Fighter Group
Assigned to 62FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to HQ Sqn, 65FW, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 383FS, 355FG, 8AF USAAF. -
Lucian Dade
Military | Colonel | Commanding Officer | 56th Fighter Group
Pete Dade served as a fighter pilot with the 62nd Fighter Squadron of the 56th Fighter Group, flying missions from Boxted, England. He became an ace, credited with shooting down 5 enemy aircraft in aerial combat. After the war he remained in what soon...
Places
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Boxted
Military site : airfield
Boxted was built for heavy bombers and became operational from May 1943. In the few months B-26 Marauders of the 386th Bomb Group were stationed there, there were two night attacks by the Luftwaffe. On 17 August 1943, one man was killed when bombs...
Events
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| Manufactured | Farmingdale, NY 11735, USA | 1944 |
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Built at Republic. |
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| Delivered | LaGuardia Airport (LGA), Queens, NY 11371, USA | 1944 |
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Delivered to USAAF. |
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| Crashed | Boxted, Colchester, UK | 18 October 1944 |
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Taxiing Accident Boxted/Sta 150 Cat 3 damage Lt Pete D Cherednik, 18-Oct-44. P-47D 42-26417 - 62FS 56FG 8AF |
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| Assigned | Boxted, Colchester, UK | |
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Assigned to 62FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 17 August 2020 13:13:26 | Emily | Changes to nicknames, markings and description |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 04 January 2018 15:46:28 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with serial number, aircraft type, production block number, manufacturer, markings, description, events, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=42-26417&Submit=S... |
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