American Air Museum in Britain

Units

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  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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  20th Fighter Group

  Group
  In August 1943, the 20th Fighter Group arrived in Clyde, Scotland, before travelling to Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire, which was to be their base for the rest of the war. The Group flew 312 missions before their last mission on 25 April 1945. The...

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  79th Fighter Squadron

  Squadron

People

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  Benjamin McCarty

  Military | Second Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot
  Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Nancy on 9 May 1944 in P-38J #42-104289. MACR 4688. AM w/ Oak Leaf Cluster, PH, POW

Aircraft

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  42-67998 "Li’l One"

  P-38 Lightning
  Landing accident RAF Wittering. P-38J 42-67998 “Li’l One”. 8th May 1944, aircraft had Cat AC battle damage from the mission.

Missions

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  8th Air Force Field Order 331

  8 May 1944
  

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  Kings Cliffe

  Military site : airfield
  Kings Cliffe began as a satellite air base for the Group based at nearby Wittering. The 56th Fighter Group, however, were all based at Kings Cliffe and it was here that the pilots trained in P-47 Thunderbolts and flew their first missions in the...

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  Wittering

  Military site : airfield
  Wittering, now in Cambridgeshire, began as RFC Stamford in 1916. By the end of the First World War, it had been renamed RAF Wittering, and was used by both British and American aircraft. It had six hangars, fifteen aircraft sheds and many other...