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P-38 Lightning
Assigned to 428FS, 474FG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) dive bombing/strafing mission to Liege vectored onto parked up tank column in St Vith and hit by 88mm flak burst which took out the port engine, successfully feathered, starboard engine noted to be streaming oil and coolant. Shortly after the pilot 2Lt Adrian V Knox stated he was baling out, canopy came off, no sign of chute deploying. Killed in Action (KIA). 23-Dec-44. MACR 11413.
Service
Units
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474th Fighter Group
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428th Fighter Squadron
Squadron
People
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Adrian Knox
Military | Second Lieutenant | Fighter pilot | 474th Fighter Group
Assigned to 428FS, 474FG, 9AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) dive bombing/strafing mission to Liege vectored onto parked up tank column in St Vith and hit by 88mm flak burst which took out the port engine, successfully feathered, starboard engine noted...
Places
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Warmwell
Military site : airfield
Originally named Woodsford, the station opened as a grass airfield Armament Practice Camp in 1937. Subject to a change of name in 1938, to avoid confusion with the Avro factory airfield of Woodford, RAF Warmwell was used as a training, fighter and ASR...
Events
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| Manufactured | Burbank, CA, USA | 1944 |
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Built at Lockheed. |
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| Delivered | California, USA | 1944 |
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Delivered to USAAF. |
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| Assigned | Warmwell, Dorchester DT2, UK | 1944 |
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Assigned to 428FS, 474FG, 9AF USAAF. |
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| Crashed | St Vith, Belgium | 23 December 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) dive bombing/strafing mission to Liege vectored onto parked up tank column in St Vith and hit by 88mm flak burst which took out the port engine, successfully feathered, starboard engine noted to be streaming oil and coolant. Shortly after the pilot 2Lt Adrian V Knox stated he was baling out, canopy came off, no sign of chute deploying. KIA. 23-Dec-44. MACR 11413. |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 23 January 2017 16:42:15 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, description, events, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/30328633 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:41:02 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 11413 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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