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Arthur Theodore Altman Jr

Military

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Wingman 55th FS, 20th FG 6:00 combat hours.
MIA Jan. 5, 1944 near Wangerooge Island, Germany. Last seen going into clouds with engine smoking. P-38J s/n 42-67194 MACR 1969.

Service

Units served with

  • 8th Air Force

    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. ...

  • 20th Fighter Group

    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...

  • 55th Fighter Squadron

    55th Fighter Squadron

    Squadron

Aircraft

  • 42-67194

    P-38 Lightning
    Assigned to 55FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) target support mission to Kiel. Hit by Naval flak. Crashed into North Sea in P-38J 42-67194. Killed in Action (KIA). 5-Jan-44. MACR 1969.

Associated Place

  • 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...

Events

Event Location Date
Born Ramsey County, MN, USA 16 December 1915

Son of Arthur T and Hazel Louise [Eugley] Altman.
Lived in St Paul, Minnesota 1940
Enlisted Los Angeles, CA, USA 24 February 1942
Assigned Wittering, Peterborough PE8, UK 27 August 1943 – 5 January 1944

Assigned to 55FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF.
Promotion Wittering, Peterborough PE8, UK 1944

Promoted to 1st Lieutenant.
Killed in action Wangerooge, Germany 5 January 1944

Failed to Return (FTR) target support mission to Kiel.
Hit by Naval flak. Crashed into North Sea in P-38J 42-67194. Killed in Action (KIA). 5-Jan-44. MACR 1969.
Buried 1945

Tablets of the Missing.
Buried Minneapolis, MN, USA 1959

Memorialised
Fort Snelling National Cemetery
Minneapolis
Hennepin County
Minnesota, USA
Nationality
American
Nickname
'Arty'
Service numbers
19080399 / O-745991
Highest rank
First Lieutenant
Role/job
Fighter Pilot-1056 Twin Engine
Awards
  • Air Medal
  • American Campaign Medal
  • American Defense Medal
  • Purple Heart
  • World War II Victory Medal
  • European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with 3 bronze stars

Revisions

Date Contributor Update
15 July 2017 00:32:25 fugari Changes to role, biography, awards and media associations
Sources

JCook Photo Collection & Archives
Date Contributor Update
07 September 2016 14:22:24 general ira snapsorter Changes to events
Sources

Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- MACR 1969 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
Date Contributor Update
08 July 2016 18:47:11 Al_Skiff Changes to middlename, suffix, nickname, service number, highest rank, biography, awards, events, unit associations, place associations and aircraft associations
Sources

http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=42-67194&Submit=S...
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbmsn.asp?SN=42-67194&Submit6=Go
https://www.fold3.com/image/28705990
Date Contributor Update
27 September 2014 18:04:11 AAM AAM ingest
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1969, 8th AF Losses, WWII Memorial, King;'s Cliffe Memorial Edition / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list

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