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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Lt Ernest H Treff, 61st Fighter Squadron. Although a P-47M pilot, it seems that he never had his own one assigned.
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Units
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56th Fighter Group
Group
Flying P-47 Thunderbolts throughout their time stationed in England, the Group, known as "the Wolfpack", had more ace pilots than any other Eighth Air Force Fighter Group. The 56th Fighter Group also destroyed more enemy aircraft in air combat than any... -
61st Fighter Squadron
Squadron
People
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Ernest Treff
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter Pilot
Assigned to 61FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. Credited with 3 destroyed (ground) five damaged (ground) 120Hrs combat operations. End of War. ...
Locations
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Boxted
Military site : airfield
Boxted was built for heavy bombers and became operational from May 1943. In the few months B-26 Marauders of the 386th Bomb Group were stationed there, there were two night attacks by the Luftwaffe. On 17 August 1943, one man was killed when bombs...
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 11 July 2016 11:49:07 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with caption, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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