VIII Bomber Command
Command
Military
Formerly senior pilot. CG VIII BC 1 July 1943 to January 1944.
See www.arlingtoncemetery.com/flanderson.htm
Films from the Frederick L. Anderson Collection at the Hoover Library & Archives were preserved in 2015 with funding from a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. See: http://www.hoover.org/news/hoover-preserves-1940s-color-films-featuring-...
Silver Star/ DFC/ DSM Oak Leaf Cluster/ AM/ LM
Command
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...
Squadron
Military site : non-airfield
Not the site of RAF High Wycombe, this was the Headquarters of Eighth Air Force Bomber Command (Pinetree). Situated on land and in a house formerly occupied by Wycombe Abbey School and restored to them by the US on 9 May 1946.
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Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Kingston, New York | 4 October 1905 |
Died | 2 March 1969 | |
Buried | Arlington National Cemetery |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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16 December 2016 11:43:33 | Lucy May | Changes to highest rank, unit associations and media associations |
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Brought in information from duplicate record. Source: |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
10 August 2015 16:20:50 | K Flynn | Changes to media associations |
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Associated image of Major General Frederick L. Anderson from Roger Freemen Collection |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:10:28 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / The Mighty Eighth by Roger Freeman; www.arlingtoncemetery.com/flanderson.htm |