Joseph Goetz

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-31401.jpeg UPL 31401 Flt.O. Joseph Goetz...

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Object Number - UPL 31401 - Flt.O. Joseph Goetz...

Assigned to 62FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. On 21-Jan-44, made gear up landing at RAF Manston on return from an operational Ramrod mission in P-47D 42-22767. RTD. Transferred to 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. Crashed E/SE of La-Roche-sur-Yon, France after strafing airfield on a sweep of the the Bordeaux area on 21-Mar-44 in P-51B 43-12496. Killed in Action (KIA).



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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Unit: 495th Fighter Training Group 56th Fighter Group 551st Fighter Training Squadron 62nd Fighter Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Unit: 4th Fighter Group 335th Fighter Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Crashed

Manston, Ramsgate, Kent CT12, UK 21 January 1944 Made gear up landing at RAF Manston on return from an operational Ramrod mission in P-47D 42-22767. Returned To Duty.

Other

Transferred

Debden, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11, UK 5 February 1944 - 21 March 1944 Transferred to 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF.

Died

85000 La Roche-sur-Yon, France 21 March 1944 Crashed E/SE of La-Roche-sur-Yon, France after strafing airfield on a sweep of the the Bordeaux area on 21-Mar-44 in P-51B 43-12496. Killed in Action (KIA).

Buried

Born

Buffalo, NY, USA

Other

Assigned

Boxted, Colchester, Essex, UK 5 February 1944 Assigned to 62FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF.
Buffalo, NY, USA

Revisions

Date
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Sources

Includes details from:
http://www.56thfightergroup.co.uk/personnel.htm ;
Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list ;
MACR 3383 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database;
ABMC - http://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WWI…

Date
Changes
Sources

Includes details from:
http://www.56thfightergroup.co.uk/personnel.htm ;
Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list ;
MACR 3383 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database;
ABMC - http://www.abmc.gov/search-abmc-burials-and-memorializations/detail/WWI…

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

ABMC, MACR 3383, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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