David Eugene Swift Jr
Military398th Bomb Group Collection via Nuthampstead Airfield Museum.
Assigned to ?BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. Co-pilot B-17's. ETD. 2nd Tour as fighter pilot with 383FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF.
Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.
Post War: Film director, serving his time with Walt Disney, animating such classic animated Disney films as 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs', 'Pinocchio', 'Fantasia' and 'Peter Pan'. Later directed such movies as 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying', 'Pollyanna' and 'The Parent Trap'.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 364th Fighter Group 383rd Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: RAF Honington
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Minneapolis, MN | 27 July 1919 | Son of David Eugene Swift Snr. |
Enlisted |
Los Angeles, CA | 24 October 1942 | |
Died |
Los Angeles, CA | 31 December 2001 | |
Based |
Nuthampstead | Assigned to ?BS, 398BG, 8AF USAAF. | |
Other ETD |
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Based |
Honington | Re-assigned to 383FS, 364FG, 8AF USAAF. | |
Los Angeles, CA | |||
Buried |
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles | Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA |
Revisions
https://www.fold3.com/image/632380015
https://www.fold3.com/record/85040179-david-e-swift
https://www.fold3.com/record/78196466-david-e-swift
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11191304/david-swift
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/David_Swift
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jan/11/guardianobituaries.filmnews
Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
398th History / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia