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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Richard A Albert
Military
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2nd Lt Richard A Albert
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Memorial at Pound Corner, Wangford
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Wings of War, a tribute to 2 Lt Richard A Albert, by Albert & Gage. Christine Albert, the vocalist, is Richard's niece.
Assigned to 63FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. Mid-air collision during local training flight on 5-Feb-44 in P-47D 42-7943 and crashed near Wangford, Suffolk. Killed in Action (KIA).
Service
Units served with
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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... -
63rd Fighter Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-7943
P-47 Thunderbolt
Assigned to 63FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. Mid-air collision during local training flight on 5-Feb-44 and crashed near Wangford, Suffolk. Pilot 2nd Lt Richard A Albert Killed in Action (KIA).
Associated Place
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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...
Events
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| Born | LaSalle, NY | 1922 |
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Son of Victor A and Marion [Landreth] Albert. |
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| Lived in | New York, NY, USA | 1940 |
| Enlisted | New York, NY, USA | 1942 |
| Assigned | Boxted, Colchester, Essex, UK | 27 January 1944 – 5 February 1944 |
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Assigned to 63FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Died | Wangford, Suffolk | 5 February 1944 |
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Mid-air collision during local training flight on 5-Feb-44 in P-47D 42-7943 and crashed near Wangford, Suffolk. Killed in Action (KIA). |
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| Buried | 1945 | |
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Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial |
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Revisions
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| 30 June 2016 15:25:24 | Al_Skiff | Changes to role, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/page/529897830_richard_a%20albert/details/ |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 04 May 2015 16:53:15 | usxpat | Changes to place associations |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 03 May 2015 15:05:43 | usxpat | Changes to events and place associations |
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American Battle Monuments Commission |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:22:23 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Combat Chronology, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list |
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