8th Air Force
Command
42-67825
P-38 Lightning
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Lockheed P-38J Lightning 42-67825 'Texas Ranger IV' CG-J.
Shot down, flak hit, crashed near Coulommiers on 10 Apr 44. MACR 3620.
Service
Units
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55th Fighter Group
Group
The 55th Fighter Group were the first P-38 Lightning Group to go fully operational from England. The pilots flew long-range escort missions for bombers flying over occupied Europe and racked up 'kills' of their own by destroying enemy aircraft in... -
People
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Carl Causey
Military | Technical Sergeant | 55th Fighter Group
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Jack Jenkins
Military | Colonel | Pilot | 55th Fighter Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Coulommiers on 10 Apr 44 in P-38 'Texas Ranger' #42-67825. MACR 3620. ... -
Robert Sand
Military | Staff Sergeant | Airplane Propeller Specialist | 55th Fighter Group
SSgt 38th FS 55th FG 1942-45. From Bellingham, WA Well known for the beautiful color images he took during the war.
Missions
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8th Air Force 296 and 8th Air Force Field Order 294
10 April 1944
Places
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Wormingford
Military site : airfield
Wormingford was a Royal Flying Corps/RAF anti-Zeppelin aircraft Landing Ground First World War, rebuilt for the Eighth Air Force 1942-43. It was a Ninth Air Force base from 1943-44, and home to the 362nd Fighter Group. Switching back to the Eighth Air...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Crashed | Coulommiers, France | 10 April 1944 – 10 April 1944 |
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Shot down, flak hit, crashed near Coulommiers on 10 Apr 44. MACR 3680. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 28 December 2015 21:24:24 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, 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 |
| 27 September 2014 18:41:01 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 3620 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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