Walton Wadley
Military | Staff Sergeant | Crew chief | 359th Fighter Group
Assigned to 368FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF.
Military
Assigned to 369FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. Transferred to 368FS. Returned to 369FS. Crash landed at East Wretham in P-47 14-Jan-44 on return from operations. RTD.
Transferred to 555FTS, 496FTG, 8AF USAAF.
Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Crew chief | 359th Fighter Group
Assigned to 368FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF.
Group
The 359th Fighter Group flew 346 missions from East Wretham between December 1943 and April 1945. In the main these missions were escorting bombers flying over occupied Europe. The Group, soon after converting from Thunderbolts to Mustangs, were...
Group
Activated as 496th Fighter Training Group on 11 December 1943 at Greencastle by VIII Composite Command.
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Squadron
Distinguished Unit Citation: Germany, 11 September 1944.
Squadron
Squadron
Squadron
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 368FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) ramrod to Lisieux, section bounced 25 Fw190's, during melee strayed behind formation and was picked of by Fw190, crashed near Dreux on 8-Aug-44 in P-51B 42-106867 Killed in Action (KIA). MACR...
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 354FS, 355FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) ramrod mission, failed to pull out of strafing run on train in P-51B 42-106874, crashed near Hambergen. Pilot 2nd Lt Herbert Fritts Killed in Action (KIA). 24-May-44. MACR 5402.
P-51 Mustang
Assigned to 368FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) escort mission to Dusseldorf, suffered mechanical failure and crashed near Liege. Killed in Action (KIA). 5-Oct-44. MACR 9266.
Military site : airfield
East Wretham was not improved to Class A standard. It retained its shorter runways, although eventually pierced-steel planking was laid to make take offs and landings easier for the Thunderbolt, and then Mustang, pilots. Steel matting was also laid to...
Military site : airfield
Goxhill opened in June 1941 as an RAF Bomber Command airfield, before being handed over to RAF Fighter Command in December. The Eighth Air Force took ownership in August 1942, and used the airfield, which they quickly dubbed 'Goat Hill' for operational...
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Washington, USA | 28 July 1917 |
Lived in | Olympia, WA, USA | 1941 |
Enlisted | Tacoma, WA, USA | 17 February 1941 |
Based | East Wretham | 1 January 1943 – 14 January 1943 |
Assigned to 369FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Based | East Wretham | 14 January 1943 – 23 January 1943 |
Moved to 368FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Based | East Wretham | 23 January 1943 – 1 August 1944 |
Returned to 369FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Crashed | Farmingdale, NY 11735, USA | 20 August 1943 |
Landing Accident 1 Mile NE Farmingdale, NY Cat 5 damage, pilot Lt Glenn C Bach, 20-Aug-43. P-47 42-8257 - 369FS 359FG |
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Crashed | Wretham, Thetford IP24, UK | 14 January 1944 |
Crash landed at East Wretham in P-47 14-Jan-44 on return from operations. RTD. |
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Promotion | Wretham, Thetford IP24, UK | 10 June 1944 |
Promoted to Captain. |
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Based | Goxhill | 1 August 1944 – 3 November 1944 |
Transferred to 555FTS, 496FTG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Died | Westfield, MA 01085, USA | 16 August 1998 |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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16 November 2016 14:31:03 | general ira snapsorter | Changes to biography, unit associations and aircraft associations |
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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from: |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
26 August 2016 09:22:21 | Al_Skiff | Changes to suffix, service number, highest rank, role, biography, awards, events, place associations and aircraft associations |
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http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=Bach&Submit=Search |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:11:31 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list |