Sherman Armsby

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-18345.jpeg UPL 18345 375th Fighter Squadron, 361st Fighter Group. Bottisham, mid-July 1944.

Left to right, back row:
Howard Spaulding, Herbert Boelter, David Morgan, James Eason, Murray Bell, Eugene Cole, David Edwards, William Shackelford, William Kemp, William McCoppin, Maynard Emlaw, Dustin Cowle, William Gill, Eugene Gentzler and Bruce Rowlett

Left to right, second row:
Charles Narvis and Joseph Kapr

Left to right, third row:
Raymond Comer, Alton Snyder, Robert Adams, Sherman Armsby, Robert Wright, Warren Ewert, John Black, Roswell Freedman (Squadron Commander), James Hall and Urban Drew

Left to right, fourth row:
James Donohue, William Rogers, John Thomas, Russell Sobieski, Merle Rainey, Dean Morehouse, Elroy Neely, Francis Glankler

Left to right, fifth row: Charles Cummins, 'Snitz' and Martin Johnson

Museum object reference no. BAM_0308 Bottisham Airfield Museum

Amended formatting of caption to make it easier to work out who is who.

Object Number - UPL 18345 - 375th Fighter Squadron, 361st Fighter Group. Bottisham, mid-July 1944. Left to right, back row: Howard Spaulding, Herbert Boelter, David...

Assigned to 495FTG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 375FS, 361FG, 8AF USAAF. Credited with 5.5 destroyed, 2 damaged. Destroyed 3 x Bf109's on a single mission dated 20-Jul-44. Brought down strafing rail carriages, ammunition carriage exploded as he flew over it near Thionville 26-Aug-44 in P-51B 43-24761 'Jacqueline'. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 8538.



Awards: DSC, DFC, AM (3 OLC), PH.

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 361st Fighter Group 375th Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Jacqueline
  • Unit: 361st Fighter Group 375th Fighter Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Pleasanton, KS 66075, USA 8 December 1924 Son of Horace and Jessie Edith [Rawson] Armsby.

Enlisted

Maryland, USA 17 September 1942

Other

Transferred

Bottisham, Cambridge CB25, UK 9 April 1944 - 26 August 1944 Transferred to 375FS, 361FG, 8AF USAAF.

Died

57100 Thionville, France 26 August 1944 Brought down strafing rail carriages, ammunition carriage exploded as he flew over it near Thionville 26-Aug-44 in P-51B 43-24761 'Jacqueline'. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 8538.

Buried

Other

Promotion

Bottisham, Cambridge CB25, UK Promoted to 1st Lieutenant.

Other

Assigned

Atcham, Shrewsbury, UK 9 April 1944 Assigned to 495FTG, 8AF USAAF.
Oakland, CA, USA

Revisions

Date
ContributorLucyd
Changes
Sources

Combined two entries into a single entry. Record includes information from the following sources:
MACR 8538 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
https://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WW…
http://www.fold3.com/image/28673486/

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Paul B. Cora, MACR 8538 / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list

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