Donald Earl Adams
MilitaryAssigned to 343FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. 2 x missions. Credited with 2 destroyed and 2 damaged (ground).
Post war: Returned to the US after duty in Occupation Forces Jun-47. Remained in USAF flying both F-80 Shooting Stars and F-86E Sabre jets. Deployed to Korea in F-86E Sabre jets with the 16th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter Interceptor Group, credited with 6.5 MIG jet kills and 3.5 damaged. Killed whilst flying an F-89C Scorpion near Detroit Airport at an airshow 30-Aug-52.
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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: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 17 April 1945
- Date: 9 April 1945
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bures / RAF Wormingford / RFC Wormingford / USAAF Station 159 / Wormingford Landing Ground
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Caton, NY 14830, USA | 23 February 1921 | |
Enlisted |
Rochester, NY, USA | 10 October 1942 | |
Based |
Wormingford | 22 March 1945 | Assigned to 343FS, 55FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Died Crashed |
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, Detroit, MI 48242, USA | 30 August 1952 | Crashed due to Structural Failure Detroit Major Airport, Wayne, MI Cat 4 damage F-89C 51-5781 - 27FISq 4711DefWg |
Buried |
Charter Twp of Clinton, MI, USA | Clinton Grove Cemetery Clinton Township Macomb County Michigan, USA. | |
Other Korean service |
South Korea | Deployed to Korea. Flying F-86 Sabres credited with 6.5 MIG jet kills and 3.5 damaged. | |
Mt Clemens, MI, USA |
Revisions
http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=adams
http://www.station131.co.uk/55th/Pilots/343rd%20Pilots/Adams%20Donald%2…
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbapi.asp?Pilot=Adams%2C+Donald+…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_E._Adams
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Adams&GSfn=Donald…;
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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.55th.org roster