Allan Vaughan Elston
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Reconnaissance
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
- Aircraft Type: F-5 Lightning
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 13th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
- Unit: 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group
- Aircraft Type: L-4 Grasshopper
- Unit: 438th Troop Carrier Group 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group 381st Service Squadron 88th Troop Carrier Squadron
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Springfield, Missouri | 18 August 1920 | |
Other Combat Mission |
Niedermedig, Germany | 3 August 1944 | Mission to photograph airfields at Marville, St. Omer, Chievres, Nivelles, Liege, Raube, Niedermedig |
Other Combat Mission |
Avranches, France | 5 August 1944 | 43-28616 |
Other Combat Mission |
Dreux, France | 7 August 1944 | 42-67359 |
Other Combat Mission |
Amiens, France | 9 August 1944 | Dunkirk, Amiens, Cap Griz Nez, Le Crotoy, Abbeville, Gravelines, Dieppe 42-68235 |
Other Combat Mission |
Antwerp, Belgium | 13 August 1944 | Mission to photograph railroads: Courtrai-Ghent-Malines-Antwerp 43-29030 |
Other Combat Mission |
Beauvais, France | 14 August 1944 | 42-67332 |
Other Combat Mission |
Trier, Germany | 15 August 1944 | Trier HQ, Airfields at Furnes, Chievres, Florennes, St. Trond, Brussels 43-29030 |
Other Mission/Forced Landing |
Vasteras, Sweden | 22 September 1944 | Forced to land in Sweden after losing an engine over Stettin, Germany |
Died |
Los Angeles, California | 7 April 1976 | |
Los Angeles, California | Worked for the Vega Division of Lockheed |
Revisions
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Sources
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2238&h=1908243…
"Eyes of the Eighth" - Patricia Fussell Keen
Pages 358-362
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources
7th Photo Recon Group Master Directory, 6 June 1996 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia