Joseph M Aycock

Military

Plane shot down by fighters over France. Landed in Holland behind enemy lines and returned to allied control with the help of the Underground.

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.

486th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

44-6292

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group

Events

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Returned

9 September 1944

Revisions

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MACR 8612

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4Combat Chronology p. 206 and Supplement p. 474, MACR 8929 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia