William Frost Jr

Military

Assigned to 506FS, 404FG, 8AF USAAF. "During an early familiarisation flight with a fully loaded P47C [41-6529], 1st Lt William Frost had to carry out an emergency return to the airfield, having notified the field controller that he had a fuel leak and needing to land quickly. The pilots at this time had relatively little experience of a flying the P47 fully loaded, aircraft at Myrtle Beach had had much of their armour removed and often the guns too. Lt Frost was considered a well above average pilot by his contemporaries, but flying a P47 with everything hanging, at slow speed and low level was difficult even for a good pilot if they had little experience of the type. Add the pressure of an emergency return, and the need probably to manouver by turning tight towards the airfield to avoid the village of Winkton, and Lt Frost would have been under enormous pressure. Sadly the aircraft slipped out of its tight turn and crashed into the field across the road from the Lamb Inn, only a few yards from the airfield boundary and a couple of hundred yards from the runway." Classed Died Non Battle DNB.





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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
  • Nicknames: Hi! R.P.M./Eager Beaver/Miss Beth
  • Unit: 404th Fighter Group 4th Fighter Group 336th Fighter Squadron 506th Fighter Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

New Jersey, USA 18 September 1920

Enlisted

New York, NY, USA 21 March 1942 Enlisted Witchell NY.

Died

Winkton, Christchurch, Dorset BH23, UK 13 April 1944 Crashed Engine Failure Winkton/Sta 414 Cat 5 damage, pilot Lt William Frost Jr KIA, 13-Apr-44. 506FS 404FG 9AF.
Passaic County, NJ, USA

Buried

Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Coton South Cambridgeshire District Cambridgeshire, England.

Buried

Bergen County, NJ, USA Memorialised Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery Saddle River Bergen County New Jersey, USA.