Andrew K Dutch III

Military
media-39544.jpeg UPL 39544 Major Andrew K. Dutch III 379BG group Navigator.

Object Number - UPL 39544 - Major Andrew K. Dutch III 379BG group Navigator.

Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF. 26 x combat missions. ETD





Awards: DFC (3OLC), AM (7OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 379th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Stump Jumper
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group Base Air Depot 1 524th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Aphrodite
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 388th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
A B-17 Flying Fortress (WA-P, serial number 42-32000) of the 524th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group after forced landing in Felpham, Sussex, 4 July 1944. Handwritten caption on reverse: '4th July 1944. A/C shot up over France. F/L - crew safe. Rear of Downview Road. Houses (West Side) Felpham, Bognor Regis, Sussex. Resident who provided photo still corresponds with pilot - now solicitor. From P. Amos, 6 Patham Close, Littlehampton, Sussex.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Mojo Jr/ Twentieth Century
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 527th Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Trenton, New Jersey 25 September 1921 Son of Andrew K Dutch Jr.

Enlisted

Trenton, NJ 19 January 1942 Trenton, New Jersey

Died

Tarpon Springs, FL 24 July 2003

Based

Kimbolton Assigned to 525BS, 379BG, 8AF USAAF.

Buried

Bay Pines National Cemetery, Bay Pines, FL Bay Pines National Cemetery Bay Pines, Pinellas County, FL

Other

Married

Trenton, NJ Married Elizabeth Earle Herbert.

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Who's Who in the Eighth Air Force and/or Biographical Directory Command & Staff Officers Eighth Air Force 1942-45; 379th Bomb Group Anthology

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