P-51 Mustang
Capt. Bud Anderson and his close friend Capt. Jim Browning in font of Anderson's P-51 'Old Crow'.
Assigned to 363FS, 357FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort to Brunswick, closed in a dive to 50yds of Bf109, which disintegrated, causing A/C to fly through the resulting debris. Last seen in dive through debris Pilot Lt Alfred R Boyle Prisoner of War (POW). 21-Feb-44. MACR 2418.
Group
The 357th Fighter Group was the first P-51 Mustang Group in the Eighth Air Force, training with them from November 1943 at Raydon, England and entering combat with them in the February of the following year from their new base at Leiston. The Group was...
Squadron
Military | Colonel | Fighter Pilot-1055 single engine | 357th Fighter Group
Clarence "Bud" Anderson enlisted shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. He earned his pilots wing in September 1942 and joined the 357th Fighter Group a year later. In late 1943, Anderson and the 357th arrived in Europe, where they quickly...
Military | First Lieutenant | Fighter pilot | 357th Fighter Group
Assigned to 363FS, 357FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort to Brunwick. Crashed near Zwolle in P-51B 43-6723 21-Feb-44 after flying through the debris of an Me109 he shot down. Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 2418.
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Military | Sergeant | Ground Personal/Armorer | 357th Fighter Group
Leon Zimmermann served with the 357th Fighter Group as Major Clarence "Bud" Anderson's armorer for 'Old Crow'.
Military site : airfield
Leiston's location only three miles from the North Sea Coast made it ideal as a Fighter Group air base whose job would be to escort bombers across the sea and over occupied Europe. The air base also witnessed the arrival of many very damaged Allied...
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| Manufactured | Inglewood, CA, USA | 1944 |
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Built at North American Aviation. |
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| Delivered | California, USA | 1944 |
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Delivered to USAAF. |
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| Assigned | Leiston IP16, UK | 1944 |
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Assigned to 363FS, 357FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Crashed | Zwolle, Netherlands | 21 February 1944 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) bomber escort to Brunswick, closed in a dive to 50yds of Bf109, which disintegrated, causing A/C to fly through the resulting debris. Last seen in dive through debris Pilot Lt Alfred R Boyle Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 2418. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 13 July 2016 19:40:29 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, nicknames, markings, description, events, unit associations and place associations |
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http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/search.php?searchString=6723 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:41:40 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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MACR 2418 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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