8th Air Force
Command
Tobin Armstrong
Military
Assigned to 63FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF.
Transferred to 361FG.
Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.
Service
Units served with
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361st Fighter Group
Group
The 361st Fighter Group was the last P-47 Thunderbolt Group to join the Eighth Air Force. Between 21 January 1944 and 20 April 1945, the Group flew 441 missions, the majority in an escort role in support of bombers flying over occupied Europe. The... -
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
Associated Place
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Bottisham
Military site : airfield
The P-47 Thunderbolts of the 361st Fighter Group damaged the surfaces of the airfield so much in the first months of flying from Bottisham that American engineers were called in to lay a new runway. In January 1944 they constructed a 1,470-yard-long... -
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
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Texas, USA | 9 July 1923 |
| Enlisted | Houston, TX, USA | 19 February 1943 |
| Assigned | Boxted, Colchester, UK | 13 February 1945 – 21 July 1945 |
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Assigned to 63FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Transferred | Bottisham, Cambridge CB25, UK | 21 July 1945 |
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Transferred to 361FG. |
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| Crashed | 91522 Ansbach, Germany | 4 January 1946 |
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Crashed Belly Landing Ansbach/ R-45 Cat 3 damage, pilot Lt Tobin (NMI) Armstrong, 4-Jan-46. P-51D-20NA 44-63620 - 42ARS 42ADG 9AF. |
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| Died | Kingsville, TX 78363, USA | 7 October 2005 |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 07 September 2016 16:44:24 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to biography |
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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from: |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 26 July 2016 08:38:09 | Al_Skiff | Changes to service number, highest rank, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbapi.asp?Pilot=Armstrong%2C+Tobi... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:26:12 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list / www.56thfightergroup.co.uk/personnel.htm |
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